ANTHONY WAYNE | General Anthony Wayne signs an order for whiskey for an Army hospital—presumably for medicinal use only

ANTHONY WAYNE

MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED ("ANTY. WAYNE"), ORDERING WHISKEY FOR THE ARMY HOSPITAL IN GREENEVILLE, OHIO

One page (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 132 x 190 mm) on a half-sheet of paper, [Greeneville, Ohio,] 14 September 1795, text in the hand of Surgeon's Mate Richard Allison, endorsed on the verso; loss to upper left corner costing two letters of endorsement.

Surgeon's Mate Richard Allison directed this order to Colonel Kirkpatrick, Commissary General of Issues, at Greeneville: "Please to furnish one Barrel of Whiskey for the use of the Hospital." General Anthony Wayne, commanding at Fort Greenville—which covered more than fifty acres and was the largest wooden fort in North America—countersigned the order below Allison's signature. An endorsed receipt on the back of the document is signed by John Barnum: "Recd. on the within order one Barr[el] Containing Thirty six & one half Gallons of Whiskey."