[Diary entry: 16 June 1781]

16th. Directed that no more Invalids be transferred till further Orders1—that a detachment be formed of the weakliest Men for garrisoning of West point & that a Camp be marked out by the Chief Engineer & Q. M. Genl. near Peekskill to assemble the Troops on.

1. GW’s command that no men were “to be transferred to the Corps of Invalids untill further orders” is in General Orders, 15 June 1781 (DLC:GW). The Corps of Invalids had been established 16 July 1777 for the utilization of veterans who were not fit for active service but were still able to perform such assignments as garrison duty (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 , 8:554–56).

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Title: [Diary entry: 16 June 1781]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 16 June 1781

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 16 June 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0002-0009. [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. 381.]