9th. Went to the Posts at West point, and found by enquiry of General Heath, that all the Meat deposited in the advanced redoubts for contingent purposes would not, if served out, serve the Army two days—that the Troops had drawn none that day & that none remained in the common Magazine.
[Diary entry: 9 May 1781]
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- Washington, George
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- 9 May 1781
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- Year: Yorktown: A Victor’s View
- Month: May 1781
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- “[Diary entry: 9 May 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0001-0008. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 361.]