General Orders, 19 November 1777

General Orders

Head Quarters, White Marsh [Pa.] Novr 19th 1777.

Parole Holland.C. Signs Hanover. Hamburg.

The Pennsylvania Field Officers are desired to bring in their old commissions and receive new ones.1

All the General Officers are desired to assemble to morrow, at ten, o’clock in the forenoon, at Genl Huntington’s quarters, in order to settle the rank of the field officers of Horse, who are to attend this Board of General Officers and exhibit their respective claims.2

All arms unfit for service, which are deposited in the several regiments and corps, are to be sent immediately to the Commissary of military stores, who will send them to be repaired.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For the confusion surrounding the commissions of the Pennsylvania officers and Congress’s actions on the subject, see GW to Henry Laurens, 10 Nov., and Laurens to GW, 13–15 November.

2. See Henry Laurens to GW, 7 Nov., enclosing Congress’s resolution directing GW to settle the ranks of cavalry officers.

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Title: General Orders, 19 November 1777
Author: Washington, George
Date: 19 November 1777

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Cite as: “General Orders, 19 November 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-12-02-0306. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 12, 26 October 1777 – 25 December 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. and David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002, p. 314.]