1To George Washington from Maryland Officers, 16 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
We beg leave to represent to your Excellency that our Service is rendered in some measure disagreeable by being subject to the Command of a Man who has incurred (as we presume) by his bad conduct a reputation incompatible with the Honor of the service. Colo. Price has been branded with, and still lays under the appellation of a Coward, he has once had an examination into his Conduct, and then...
2To George Washington from Maryland Officers, 12 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Maryland officers, 12 Aug. 1778. On 13 Aug., GW’s secretary James McHenry wrote to Col. John Gunby and other Maryland officers: “Colonel Price has been transmitted a copy of the charges against him in your letter to his Excellency of yesterday that he may prepare for tryal. When the evidence you think necessary to carry on the prosecution are collected, you will be...