1From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee to Inquire into the State of the Army, 19 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
The little notice I had of your coming to the Army, and the shortness of your stay in Camp, will, more than probably, occasion the omission of many matters which of right, ought to be laid before you—and the interruption which my thoughts constantly meet by a variety of occurrences must apologize for the crude and indigested manner in which they are offered. The completion of the Continental...