1To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 19 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am honor’d with your favor of the 2d Inst. The House of Delegates from an apprehension that the people wou’d not submit to a Draught upon such principles as were contain’d in the plan laid before them (of which you have a copy) pass’d a Bill Yesterday for raising 1000 Men for Three Years ; which ’tho far from answering my former expectations, is preferable to voluntary enlistments for that...