[Whiskey Rebellion]: [Moore, Joseph]:

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[MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND ACCOUNT BOOK OF JOSEPH MOORE, PHYSICIAN TO A MILITIA CAVALRY UNIT DURING THE WHISKEY REBELLION, DESCRIBING THE EVENTS OF LATE 1794 AS HIS COMPANY MARCHED WESTWARD THROUGH ... The detailed and intimate manuscript journal of Joseph Moore, a physician from West Chester, Pennsylvania who volunteered with Joseph McClellan's Light Dragoons to "quell the western insurgents" during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. The military component of the Whiskey Rebellion was relatively short-lived and geographically contained, and any substantial manuscript account of militia forces involved is rare. Joseph Moore's detailed journal of his actions in the wall and winter of 1794 provides valuable firsthand information on the events of this early American rebellion against the federal government. The Whiskey Rebellion, when inhabitants of the western frontier mounted forceful opposition to the American government's first domestic goods tax, was one of the most important early tests of the fledgling nation's legal authority and enforcement abilities. After resistance became violent in 1794, President Washington reluctantly agreed to field a large militia to suppress the uprising. In the face of an army numbering well over ten thousand men, the rebels scattered and no large-scale use of force was necessary. While the tax remained nigh impossible to collect, the government's response showed that the infant nation had the willingness and ability to enforce its laws and keep its

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