Orders, 26 June 1756
Orders
Parole: Qualification.
Winchester: Saturday, June 26th 1756.
All the Officers—except Captain Peachy, Lieutenant Bullet, and Ensign McCarty; with all the Soldiers—except those who Captain Mercer shall chuse out of his own company—and Draughts, except those upon Captain Peachy’s Rolls:1 and the Smiths and Masons are to hold themselves in readiness to march to Fort Cumberland to-morrow.
All the Soldiers and Draughts to attend the execution of Campbell to-morrow morning at seven o’clock.
Captain Mercer will review his Company at half past six this evening, at their encampment.
LB, DLC:GW.
1. William Peachey’s company of artificers were building the new fort at Winchester. See GW’s Orders, 1 June 1756.