11From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 14 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 10th Inst. with a Schedule of expences for clothing and equipping the Cavalry—and have submitted them to the consideration of the Committee of Congress—these Gentlemen will by no means consent to a Plan which appears to them so extraordinarily expensive; as each Colonel has undertaken to provide for his own Regiment, and the Lance men are to be draughted, the...
12From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
In the inclosed letter, you will find an answer—to yours by Col. Kolkowski; since writing which I am favoured with yours of the 22d —I shall only add to what I have already said on the subject, that you will keep your cavalry as near as you can to the place first pointed out, consistent with a proper supply of forage and subsistence without too much distressing the already distressed...
13From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 26 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two Letters of 20th and 25th Jany. the latter was communicated to the Forage Master, whose answer you will find annex’d —I can only repeat what has been already written on the subject, that if the Cavalry can procure a sufficiency of forage at the quarters first assigned them, that Situation is to be prefer’d—otherwise they must undoubtedly retire to the nearest place...
14From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 1 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 27th Ulto and in answer to your question respecting the right of command in Officers of equal rank in the Infantry and Cavalry, I am to inform you that there is no other preeminence in our Service than what arises from Seniority; The Officer whose Commission is of prior date commands all those of the same grade indiscriminately whether of horse or foot. You...
15From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 24 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 15th by Count Kolkowski, I received a few days since—If I have a right idea of your situation at Rosecrantz it will fulfil the object intended. Coles Fort appeared a good position for covering a considerable part of the frontier; but any place in the vicinity of it, will answer the purpose as well; and as the circumstances you mention, make that particular spot inconvenient...
16From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 10 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your favr of the 6th was delivered to me at Fishkill by Mr Gerard. I am sorry your indisposition deprived me of the pleasure of seeing yourself. Upon consulting Govr Clinton, of the State of New York, upon a position, in which your Corps can be employed to advantage, and at the same time be plentifully subsisted in the Article of Forage, he advises the Minisink settlement upon Delaware. You...
17From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 29 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
You are to proceed immediately upon the Rect of this with your whole Corps both Horse and Foot and put yourself under the command of Major General Lord Stirling, who will be in the neighbourhood of paramus. As the Enemy are out in considerable force in Jersey, near Hackinsack, you will make particular enquiry of their situation as you advance, lest you should fall in with their parties. I am...
18From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 8 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
I recd your favor of the 5th Inst. In consequence of the resolution of Congress of the 2d Inst. directing your legion to South Carolina “to act under the command of Major Genl Lincoln, or the commanding officer of the Southern department” I have ordered the Infantry of your corps which were stationed at the Minisink to march immediately to Lancaster in Pennsylvania. You will be pleased to...
19From George Washington to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, 4 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two Letters of 29th and 31st of last month; the forming any considerable Deposit of Forage at Trenton, while you have so small a Force to protect it does not appear to me advisable, as the Enemy may with the greatest facility destroy it. My approbation of Capt. Craigs appointment was signified in my last Letter; I cannot at any rate consent to your giving Mr Zelienski the...
20Circular to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski and the Colonels of the Continental Light Dragoon Regiments, 25 October … (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to find that the liberty I granted to the light dragoons of impressing horses near the enemy’s lines has been most horribly abused and perverted into a mere plundering scheme. I intended nothing more than that the horses belonging to the disaffected, in the neighbourhood of the British army, should be taken for the use of the dismounted dragoons, and expected, that they would be...