George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 31 August 1775 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from Major General Artemas Ward, 31 Aug. 1775. On 31 Aug. Horatio Gates wrote on behalf of GW to Ward: “In Answer to your Favor of This Day to His Excellency General Washington, I have His Commands to say, that He approves of The Person being Appointed to the Command of the Boatmen being Declared in Publick Orders, before the Inlistment takes place.”1

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    To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 31 August 1775 [letter not found]
    Author
    Ward, Artemas
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    31 August 1775

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    “To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 31 August 1775 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0287. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, p. 395.]

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