General Orders, 8 February 1779

General Orders

Head-Quarters Middle-Brook Monday Feby 8th 1779.

Parole Olympus.C. Signs Goree. Pembroke.

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following general order: “Fatigue the same as Yesterday only Muhlenbergs Brigade gives a Captain—Woodford’s 1st & 2nd Pennsylvania each a sub: in lieu of those which gave them the 7th.” (orderly book, 22 Dec. 1778–26 June 1779, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 28).

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Title: General Orders, 8 February 1779
Author: Washington, George
Date: 8 February 1779

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Cite as: “General Orders, 8 February 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-19-02-0141. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 19, 15 January–7 April 1779, ed. Philander D. Chase and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 144.]