David Trimble Letter to Micajah Harrison

              Capt Harrison 
Sir, 
I have sent you perhaps two letters, 
besides some to my other acquaintances in town__ 
which you have seen___   I wish to promise that I have 
not heretofore, nor do I intend at any time to write one 
word which is to go the press___  Those who scribble 
for the press may do so, I write for my friends, and 
have no higher ambition,___   Besides I don't set myself 
up as the standard of military criticism and therefore 
don't wish any of my remarks upon the time past present 
_____  or to come, to see daylight thro' the medium of a 
newspaper___   Having thus passed a non-intercourse 
between myself and the press, I proceed to Inform you 
that the inclosed is a correct plat or map of so much 
of the country as it pretends to show, and the river, Islands, 
Ford, and Batteries are laid down, (paying due regard to 
distance) so very near their true positions, that It requires the 
eye of a critick to point out any error___ 
Col Dudleys battle was fought on a part of [word crossed out] 
Genl Waynes battle ground.  You know where his ["Genl Waynes" inserted] tent 
was pitched__   Do you remember a large white oak 
-tree, which seperated into three large trunks near the gro= 
=ound and grew to a majestick height.  That tree stands 
within this post, about 50 paces from the upper End and 
there, near its root, or base, genl Wayne pitched