15. Dined at Burns’s in the Field. Spent the Eveng. on a Committee.
Congress resolved today “that a General be appointed to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty” (
, 2:91). GW, nominated by Thomas Johnson of Maryland, was unanimously elected. For a discussion of GW’s election and the reasons behind it, see , 3:432–40; , 3:321–23.The committee which occupied GW all the evening was the one on drafting army regulations.