1To George Washington from Carl Friedrich Führer and Carl Wilhelm Kleinschmit, 24 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency was pleased, after we left New York, to favour us with a Recommendation to the Honorable the Congress; Congress according to a Resolve of Septbr 3the was pleased to appoint us Captains in a New Corps, Called the German Volunteers; By a Resolve of December 5the Congress was pleased to contermand the Raising of Said Corps and to Dismiss us with One Month pay. How great our...