1To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 27 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose your Excellency, for your consideration, a letter which I received last evening from Mr Olney. you will be pleased to inform me what directions I shall give Mr Olney and am Sir, your Excellency’s, most obdt hume Servt LS , DLC:GW . George Olney’s letter to Greene has not been identified. No reply from GW to Greene has been found, but GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman...
2To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 27 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose your Excellency a copy of a letter of resignation as Quarter Master General to Congress, and another upon the same subject to the Committee of Congress in Camp. I have only to lament that the measures of Administration have laid me under the necessity, at this critical moment. It is true, it has been my wish for a long time to get out of the Department; but as...