1To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Burgess Ball, 30 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Having been indulg’d with a Parole, unsolicitted, and unexpected, thro the Interest of Genl Phillips (as I’m inform’d) for Virginia or elsewhere, and, ever desireous to conduct myself so as to avoid any reproach from Your Excellency, I have thought it expedient thus to write to you. It being, in my present situation, improper and out of my power to take any active part in a military capacity,...