1From George Washington to Colonel Stephen Moylan, 5 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Board of War are anxious to compleat an arrangement of the four Regiments of Cavalry, and have wrote to me on that account —You will therefore be pleased to forward that of your Regiment as speedily as possible. As this will be put upon Record in the War office and will be the scale by which all future promotions will take place, I must request you to be as particular as possible in...