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I am this far on my way to the Northward and should have had the happiness of seeing you before this but have been sick with a fever at Alexandria. I dined at Mount Vernon and went to Alexandria in the Evening and that night was taken with a fever which lasted me nine days. For six days I had no intermission and but little remission. My fever is gone but has left me exceeding weak. While it...
H to Major General Nathanael Greene, October 1, 1783
To Major General Nathanael Greene
Several Officers belonging to the Southern Army have made application to me to use my interest with your Excellency for obtaining appointments in the peace establishment. Col. Harmer was among the first and a better Officer cannot be found; his whole soul is in pursuit of the profession of Arms. Col. Men t gez is also exceeding anxious to be put upon the establishment both from his fondness...
It gives me infinite satisfaction to transmit you the inclosed Copy of a Resolve of Congress of the 18 Inst. which was put into my hands yesterday. Perfectly coinciding with the sentiments which Congress have expressed on this occasion I shall feel the greatest pleasure in complying with their Resolve—but I must request you to inform me where the pieces of ordnance are to be found and to what...
I return your Excellency many thanks for your polite letter accompanying the resolution of Congress, complimenting me with a couple of Cannon. I am not very certain where those Cannon are, but I believe two are in Virginia & three in So. Carolina, and it is no less difficult for me to determine where I would wish those sent which are made choice of for me. If those in So. Carolina should be...
...1779 after being acquitted by a court-martial. Schuyler, however, refused to be considered for the post unless his rank was restored, and Congress turned to other candidates. After members decided that Gen. Henry Knox and Gen. Nathanael Greene could not be spared from field duties, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was appointed to the post (same, 2:234–235).
, 263–4) and from Griffin Greene, who stressed the urgency of his letter’s being sent to Gen. Nathanael Greene (his cousin). Both notes are at the The Papers of General Nathanael Greene
...Dec. 1783, and those he sent to the three states to the south are dated 1 Jan. 1784. Among the copies of the circular letter found are those to the presidents of the state societies: Rhode Island (Nathanael Greene),
Clement Biddle (1740–1814), Nathanael Greene’s commissary general for forage from July 1777 to June 1780, was a Philadelphia merchant whom GW used as his factor, or commercial agent, in that city.