George Washington Papers

General Orders, 27 March 1780

General Orders

Head-Quarters Morristown Monday March 27th 1780.

Parole Intrepidity— C. Signs—Industry. Integrity—

A Surgeon from the 1st Pennsylvania brigade is to go immediately to take charge of the wounded at Paramus1—he will call on Doctor Cochran for his instructions.

The General directs that officers and soldiers remain in camp and hold themselves ready for a sudden movement.

The men who want Arms to be immediately supplied and the whole to be completed with ammunition.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. A British attack into Bergen County, N.J., had left wounded soldiers (see Christopher Stuart to GW, 24 March, and notes 2 and 3).

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    General Orders, 27 March 1780
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    “General Orders, 27 March 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-25-02-0120. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 25, 10 March–12 May 1780, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, pp. 184–185.]