1From George Washington to Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 3 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
Having receiv’d information that the Recruits from North Carolina have passed through the Smallpox, at George Town in Maryland; and it being indispensably necessary that our force should be collected without a moments delay; and Marched, those who have lately come out of the above disorder, with Judgment, to prevent the ill effects thereof—you are to dispatch a careful field Officer from yr...