From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 8 February 1779

To Brigadier General Duportail

Head Quarters [Middlebrook] 8th Feby 1779.

Sir

Congress has by an act of the 2d inst. directed me to order an Engineer to proceed to south Carolina for the service of the southern Department—if I shd judge it necessary.1

As I think the presence of a skilful Engineer indispensible in that Country I am to desire that you will detach one of the Corps—with directions to repair to Charles Town and take the orders of Major General Lincoln or the Officer commanding in that Department—The choice of the person I leave to yourself and have only to add that from the importance of the service he cannot be too expeditious in his journey. I am sir &c.

Df, in John Laurens’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For this act of 2 Feb., see John Jay to GW, 3 Feb., n.1 (see also JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 13:133).

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Title: From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 8 February 1779
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Duportail, Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle
Date: 8 February 1779

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 8 February 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-19-02-0143. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 19, 15 January–7 April 1779, ed. Philander D. Chase and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, pp. 145–146.]

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