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To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 21 June 1780

From Major General Horatio Gates

Travellers-Rest1 21st June 1780

Sir

Congress have doubtless acquainted Your Excellency with Their having sent me Orders to take Command of the Southern Department, and to proceed immediately to petersbourg.2 as all appearances from that Quarter are exceeding Gloomy, I could wish Your Excellency would somewhat Brighten the Scene, by indulging me in my request, to Obtain Colonel Kuscuiusco for my Chief Engineer. His Services with me in the Campaign of 77. and the High Opinion I entertain of His Talents, and His Honour, induce me to be thus importunate with Your Excellency, to let me have The Colonel for my Chief Engineer. I hope Your Excellency received the Stationary I order’d to be sent you last Fall.3 I have Letters acquainting me, of its being deliverd to D.Q.M. at Hartford, to be forwarded to Your Head Quarters.4 with all due respect I am Sir Your Excellencys most Obedient Humble Servant

Horatio Gates

ALS (facsimile), Budka, Letters of Kosciuszko.

1. This was the name of Gates’s home in Virginia, near present-day Kearneysville, West Virginia.

2. See Samuel Huntington to GW, 13 June.

3. For these stationery supplies, see GW to Gates, 2 Oct. 1779, n.4.

4. GW replied to Gates on 8 Aug. that he already had granted Col. Thaddeus Kosciuszko permission to join the southern army and that he long since had received the stationery supplies (NHi: Gates Papers).

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    “To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 21 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0359. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, pp. 495–496.]

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