General Orders, 14 June 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Short Hills [N.J.] Wednesday June 14th 1780
Parole Portsmouth Countersigns L., C.—
Watchword Silence
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Irvine[,] Lieutenant Colonel Sumner[,] Brigade Major Ely1
A Detachment to be Paraded at twelve oClock this day with two days Provisions and forty rounds ⅌ man.
Major Parr to take the Command.
After Orders
Brigadier General Wayne will take Command of the first and Brigadier General Irvine of the second Pennsylvania Brigades.2
A Surgeon or Mate from the 1st Connecticut Brigade to join the detachment under Major Parr.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. Elisha Ely (1748–1801) joined the 10th Continental Infantry Regiment as a surgeon’s mate in November 1775. In July 1776 he became surgeon of the 19th Continental Infantry Regiment, and in January of the following year he received a commission as a captain in the 6th Connecticut Regiment. In June 1780 he performed the duties of brigade major for the 1st Connecticut Brigade. Ely left the army in August 1780.
2. GW had ordered Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne to rejoin the army from a furlough (see his letter to Wayne of 18 May; see also Wayne to GW, 25 May, and , 208).