Report of the committee who were instructed on the thirteenth ultimo to inquire into the cause or causes of the great mortality in that detachment of the Army of the United States ordered for the defence [i.e. defense] of New Orleans - Report of the committee who were instructed on the thirteenth ultimo to inquire into the cause or causes of the great mortality in that detachment of the Army of the United States ordered for the defence [i.e. defense] of New Orleans

Contents: Report. The committee, in obedience to a resolution ... instructing them to inquire into the cause or causes of the great mortality in the detachment of the army ... ordered for the defense of New Orleans -- Part A. Correspondence between Secretary of War W. Eustis and General James Wilkinson -- Absentees accounted for in the detachment of the army ordered for the defense of New Orleans. [B: four charts] -- Return of the troops at the Cantonment, Washington, Mississippi territory for January 1810. [D: two charts] -- Return of the troops at the last mentioned Cantonment, for February, 1810. [E: one chart] -- Return of deaths, desertions and discharges of the "additional military force," allotted for the defense of New Orleans [F: one chart] -- Return of the effective strength [G: one chart] -- Return of a detachment of the United States marines ... exhibiting the monthly force of the detachment, and the number of deaths [H: one chart] -- Return of the troops commanded by brigadier general Hampton [C: two charts] -- Part I. Funds placed at the disposition of the pay-master ... for the pay of the detachment ordered to New Orleans -- Part K. Provisions -- Part L. Instructions to the military agent at new Orleans, and amount of disbursements in that department -- Part M. Clothing -- Depositions. Esaias Preble -- Depositions. William D. Beall -- Depositions. Alexander Macauly -- Depositions. Electus Backus -- Examination of Captain George Peter -- Depositions. John Darrington -- Depositions. Alexander Parker -- Interrogatories put to Captain William E. Williams -- Interrogatories put to lieutenant Enos Cutler -- Depositions. Ninian Pinkney -- Depositions. John Chrystie -- Deposition of General James Wilkinson