George Washington Papers

General Orders, 2 March 1780

General Orders

Head-Quarters Morristown thursday March 2nd 1780.

Parole Military— C. Signs Men— Money.

All guards detached from the line will parade on the grand parade at troop beating, that they may be inspected by the officers of the day before marching off.

On account of the badness of the roads the attendance of the camp guards on the grand parade is dispensed with till further orders—The officers of the day will visit them as usual at their respective posts.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Adj. Gen. Alexander Scammell’s orderly book entry for this date includes the following additional general orders: “Hands and Maxwells Brigades furnish the Morris Town Pickett and the Fatigue for the new orderly Room tomorrow and next Day.

“A Fatigue party of a Corporal and four men from the first Maryland Brigade to be sent to the Auditor Generals tomorrow, to continue till relieved.

“The Detachment under Majr C. Stewart is not to March ’till further Orders” (orderly book, 17 Oct. 1779–22 March 1780, DNA: RG 93, Orderly Books, 1775–1783, vol. 33).

1. On 29 Feb., GW recorded in his weather diary that the snow at Morristown was “almost wholly gone off the fields & Roads” and that the roads were “beginning to get deep.” On 1 March, he noted that the roads were “very deep” (Diaries, description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends 3:346–47).

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    “General Orders, 2 March 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-24-02-0504. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 24, 1 January–9 March 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, pp. 612–613.]