George Washington Papers

After Orders, 4 May 1756

After Orders

[Winchester, 4 May 1756]

After Orders.

The first Subaltern for Duty, to get ready immediately to go to Cunningham-Fort,1 and wait upon Colonel Washington for orders.

LB, DLC:GW.

1. Cunningham’s fort was located twelve miles north of Winchester and about five miles from Mills Gap in the North Mountain. It was Ens. Nathaniel Milner whom GW ordered there, this date.

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    After Orders, 4 May 1756
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    “After Orders, 4 May 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0085. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 93.]