General Orders, 19 July 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Pracaness Wednesday July 19th 1780
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[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Irvine[,] Major Church[,] Brigade Major Bradford.
Morning Orders.
Brigadier General Hand is appointed officer of the day this Day vice Brigadier General Maxwell who has obtained leave of Absence.
The Light Infantry Companies that have past Inspection are not to be sent on Detachments or any other Command far distant from Camp unless especially directed in general orders: their duty is to be restricted to Picquets, Camp guards and the ordinary duties within the Limits of Camp in common with the Battalion Men.
As it is much wish’d to establish uniformity in the Corps; the officers are directed not to make any Changes in the dress of themselves or their Men ’till orders are given for a general rule.
The Feathers directed to be worn by Major Generals are to have the White below the black above:1 it will be best to have one Feather the upper part black.
It is recommended to the officers to have black and White Cockades, a black Ground with a white relief emblematic of the expected union of the two Armies.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Richard Kidder Meade wrote to Charles Stewart, commissary general of issues, “or his assistant”: “In consequence of a letter from the Committee of Congress to Mr Fesh, I am directed by his Excellency to desire that you will furnish that Gentn with one Ton of flour 6 Blls of Pork half a Ton of Beef ⅌ Week—till further orders” (DLC:GW). For the letter of the Committee at Headquarters to John Jacob Faesh of 18 July on conditions for his furnishing shot and shell from his ironworks, see , 15:458–59. On 11 Aug., Faesh wrote the Committee at Headquarters complaining that he had not received the provisions. The committee evidently passed the letter to GW, whose aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote under the docket of the letter: “The Commissaries have given directions for the delivery of the Beef and Flour weekly—Pork they have none and have written to Mr Faesh to that purpose” (DLC:GW).
1. For these directions, see General Orders, 18 June.