1. The letter from Brig. Gen. George Weedon to William Grayson, a member of the Board of War, has not been identified.

2. Weedon resigned following a rank dispute that also involved brigadier generals Peter Muhlenberg, William Woodford, and Charles Scott (see GW to Henry Laurens, 1 Jan. 1778, and n.8 to that document; see also Weedon to GW, 30 June 1780). Weedon had written to GW on 13 April 1778 that he outranked Woodford “till Joseph Jones went to Congress by whom a petition was presented and a resolution obtain Exparta,” placing Woodford and Scott ahead of him.

3. The motion that Jones claims to have made in Congress has not been identified, but a letter of 19 Nov. 1777 from North Carolina delegate John Penn to Woodford indicates that Jones had “determined as soon as he can, either to make or second a motion that Justice [concerning the rank dispute] should be done” (Stewart, Life of Woodford description begins Mrs. Catesby Willis Stewart. The Life of Brigadier General William Woodford of The American Revolution. 2 vols. Richmond, Va., 1973. description ends , 2:856). Prior to leaving Congress because of poor health in late 1777, Jones was appointed to the committee of Congress at Valley Forge that subsequently referred this rank dispute to a board of general officers (see Jones to GW, 22 Jan. 1778; GW to George Weedon, 10 Feb. 1778; and 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 , 9:972).

4. For GW’s concerns regarding a command assignment for Weedon, see his letter to Jones of 31 May.

5. This intelligence appeared in The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser (Philadelphia) for 23 May under the headline “Extract of a Letter from Edenton, (N. Carolina.) dated May 10th, 1780.” The largely erroneous intelligence exaggerated the number of British casualties (see Lydenberg, Robertson Diaries description begins Harry Miller Lydenberg, ed. Archibald Robertson, Lieutenant-General Royal Engineers: His Diaries and Sketches in America, 1762–1780. New York, 1930. description ends , 225, and Burgoyne, Enemy Views description begins Bruce E. Burgoyne, ed. Enemy Views: The American Revolutionary War as Recorded by the Hessian Participants. Bowie, Md., 1996. description ends , 384–85).

Brig. Gen. Lachlan McIntosh, then at Charleston, S.C., noted in his journal for 22 April: “The Enemy kept up a heavy Cannonade, & approach fast on our left in front of the advanced Redoubt or half Moon battery.” He recorded on 24 April: “A party of 200 Men … under the Command of Lt. Colo. Henderson Sallyed out at day Light … upon the Enemy’s approaches & compleatly Surprised them, in their trenches abot. fifteen of them were killed … & twelve Prisoners brought off.” In his diary entry for 25 April, McIntosh reported “a heavy fire of Cannon & Musketry” on advancing enemy troops, who “returned the fire Smartly & threw several Light balls & Carcasses into Town” (Hawes, Lachlan McIntosh Papers description begins Lilla Mills Hawes, ed. Lachlan McIntosh Papers in the University of Georgia Libraries. Athens, Ga., 1968. (University of Georgia Libraries Miscellanea Publications, no. 7.) description ends , 106–8).

6. The letter of 16 May from Robert Forsyth, a deputy commissary in Virginia, to Ephraim Blaine, commissary general of purchases, has not been identified, but Forsyth wrote Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene from Richmond on 14 May. That letter in part reads: “A Major [Pinketham] Eaton is in Town with whom I was in Company last Evening at the Governors. He is direct from New Bern in N. Carolina requesting this State to aid a supply of Arms to put into the Hands of 4000 Militia voted by their Assembly for the relief of Charles Town (they have not four hundred arms in the State). He informs that a Colo Henderson of Militia stole out of Chs Town the 28th Ulto charged with verbal intelligence from Major Genl Lincoln to the Executive Council in North Carolina.” Forsyth also informed Greene about the death of Richard Parker (Greene Papers description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends , 5:557–58). McIntosh recorded in his diary entry for 24 April: “Colo. Parker of the Virginians killed abot. eight this Evening by a Rifle Ball looking over the Parapet of the half Moon battery” (Hawes, Lachlan McIntosh Papers description begins Lilla Mills Hawes, ed. Lachlan McIntosh Papers in the University of Georgia Libraries. Athens, Ga., 1968. (University of Georgia Libraries Miscellanea Publications, no. 7.) description ends , 108).

John Henderson (died c.1824), a lieutenant colonel of the South Carolina militia, was later wounded during the Battle of Eutaw Springs, S.C., on 8 Sept. 1781. Following the war, Henderson served in the South Carolina General Assembly from 1787 to 1790 and held other public offices.

7. This likely erroneous intelligence may have confused Scott with Brig. Gen. Isaac Huger, who commanded 600 troops at Monck’s Corner, S.C., thirty miles north of Charleston. Scott was taken prisoner when Charleston’s defenders surrendered to British forces on 12 May.

8. In a letter dated 25 May at New Bern, N.C., North Carolina governor Abner Nash wrote Samuel Huntington, president of Congress: “I can assure you, Sir, we are in no condition at present to repel such a force as the enemy have. We have about 1,500 militia in South Carolina, and are now embodying four thousand more to march immediately to the relief of that much-distressed State; but ’tis yet uncertain whether it will be possible for us to arm this last aid” (N.C. State Records description begins Walter Clark, ed. The State Records of North Carolina. 16 vols., numbered 11-26. Winston and Goldsboro, N.C., 1895–1907. description ends , 14:824–25).

Pinketham Eaton (d. 1781) had served as a captain in the 3d North Carolina Regiment in 1776 and became a major in November 1777. In January 1779, he appeared on a muster roll of the 5th North Carolina Regiment. In 1781, Eaton commanded a special regiment of militia draftees in Continental service. He was killed in an assault on Fort Grierson during the siege of Augusta, Ga., in the spring of 1781.

9. During its May session, the Virginia General Assembly passed an “act to embody militia for the relief of South Carolina, and for other purposes,” which stipulated that 2,500 infantry be called into service from several counties based on quotas. The men would march “without delay to Hillsborough in North Carolina, as the place of general rendezvous” (Va. Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. 13 vols. 1819–23. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1969. description ends [Hening], 10:221–26).