Newburgh, New York, February 19, 1781. Requests Hamilton to inform Washington that “the provisions necessary for the detachment will move this Evening.”
ALS, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
“Colonel Ephraim Blaine to Alexander Hamilton, 19 February 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1092. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 570.]