General Orders, 23 May 1780

General Orders

Head Quarters Morristown Tuesday May 23d 1780

Parole Palermo Countersigns P. B.

[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel Meigs[,] Lieutenant Colonel Murray. Brigade Major 2d Connecticut1

For manœuvring Lieutenant Colonels Commandant Butler and Hubley; Majors Trescott and Parr; Two Adjutants from the Connecticut Division; Colours as before;2 Brigade Major from Clinton’s brigade3 to attend the Formation of the Manœuvring Battalions Tomorrow Morning Six o’Clock.4

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

GW’s expenses for this date included £1.2.6 “To cash pd Doctr Canfield [Campfield’s] servant [for] bringg asparagras a present” (Revolutionary War Journal of Household Expenses, 1776–1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5).

1. In place of the four previous words, another orderly book has “Brigade Major 2d Pensylvania Brigade” (Lovell, Israel Angell description begins Louise Lewis Lovell. Israel Angell, Colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment. [New York,] 1921. description ends , 324).

2. See the general orders for 16 and 19 May.

3. Another orderly book gives an additional general order: “Clintons gives a Corpl and 6 for fatigue at pluckemin to be R[elieved] weekly” (Lauber, Orderly Books of the Fourth and Second New York Regiments description begins Almon W. Lauber, ed. Orderly Books of the Fourth New York Regiment, 1778-1780, the Second New York Regiment, 1780-1783, by Samuel Tallmadge and Others, with Diaries of Samuel Tallmadge, 1780-1782, and John Barr, 1779-1782. Albany, 1932. description ends , 359).

4. Another orderly book includes an additional general order: “A Sub two Sergts and Twenty men for Fatigue they will be at the Half Moon Tavern to-Morrow morning at nine oClock.” They were to receive orders from a deputy quartermaster general (Lovell, Israel Angell description begins Louise Lewis Lovell. Israel Angell, Colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment. [New York,] 1921. description ends , 324).

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Title: General Orders, 23 May 1780
Author: Washington, George
Date: 23 May 1780

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Cite as: “General Orders, 23 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0094. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, pp. 134–135.]