George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Colonel Charles Harrison, 28 May 1779

From Colonel Charles Harrison

28th May 1779

Sir

In consequence of a Circular letter from your Excellency desiring my claim of Rank & that of the Regt under my command.1

I begg leave to observe to you Sir my principles of Rank & that of my Regt are altogether founded on a special Resolve of Congress of the 26th November 76,2 on the 30th of the said month recd my Commission & also those of the whole Corps, & before the first day of January 77 enlisted two Companies. Am Sir with all due respect Your very Hue Sert

Cha. Harrison

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. See Circular to the Continental Artillery Colonels, 4 March, and GW to a Board of General Officers, this date.

2. Congress had resolved on that date that a regiment of Continental artillery should be raised in Virginia (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 6:981).

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    To George Washington from Colonel Charles Harrison, 28 May 1779
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    “To George Washington from Colonel Charles Harrison, 28 May 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0607. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 20, 8 April–31 May 1779, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, pp. 659–660.]

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