George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Colonel Ebenezer Learned, 2 May 1776

From Colonel Ebenezer Learned

New York, 2 May 1776. Requests an honorable discharge from the Continental army because he is “so Indisposd in Body” that he is “absolutely—Renderd unfit to serve.”1

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. GW promptly approved Learned’s discharge. Learned returned to the army after Congress appointed him a brigadier general on 2 April 1777, and he served until March 1778.

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    To George Washington from Colonel Ebenezer Learned, 2 May 1776
    Author
    Learned, Ebenezer
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    2 May 1776

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    “To George Washington from Colonel Ebenezer Learned, 2 May 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0152. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 4, 1 April 1776 – 15 June 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, p. 186.]

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