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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1782
On a report from the war office, on a memorial of Peter Gansevoort, esq. late a colonel of the New York line, in the service of the United States:
Resolved, That Colonel Gansevoort be informed that although Congress have a high sense of his military abilities and courage, particularly displayed in the defence of Fort Schuyler, in 1777, yet it is impracticable with the present arrangement of the army, to reinstate him therein, without manifest injury to other officers, he having been deranged as a junior colonel of that line, and his regiment incorporated agreeably to the principles prescribed in the resolution of Congress of the 3d and 21 of October, 1780.2
[Note 2: 2 Gansevoort's memorial, dated January 28, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, III, folio 489. The report of the Secretary at War, dated February 25, is in No. 149, I, folio 145.
On this or an approximate date was read a letter of March 5 from Colonel Laumoy and others. It was ordered to lie. It is in No. 78, XIV, folio 507.]
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