Immediately on the publication of the Secretary of War Requiring the Officers of the different Regiments to Report themselves to you, being then in Philadelphia I wrote to you giving my Address, but hearing nothing from you, being anxious to join my Regiment and fearing my letter might have miscarried thro’ the Negligence of a Servant by whom I sent it to your Lodgings; I again on the nineteenth of June addressed a letter to you by mail, and shou’d not again have troubled you had not a late publication of the Secretary of War of a Similar import appeared—It is a duty I think incumbent on every Officer to avoid even the slightest appearance of disobedience of Orders and to escape any Imputation of that kind I think it best once more to Inform you that your Orders for me directed to Centre Ville Eastern Shore of Mary land will be punctually attended to—

I have the Honor to be Sir with Respect Yr. very Obt. St.