General Orders (second general orders), 8 June 1780

General Orders

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A Field Officer from each division to post and visit the Guards of the Divisions respectively.

The officers from General St Clairs division to visit also the Guards posted from the Jersey Brigade.

The Army to keep its present position ’till further orders—the officers to keep with their regiments and platoons and their men compact as possible.

General St Clair having joined is to resume the Command of his own division; General Greene will take command of the Front Line.1

Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair commanded the Pennsylvania division. The front, or first, line of the army consisted of the Pennsylvania and Connecticut divisions (see Battle of Connecticut Farms, 7–8 June, Document V).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: General Orders (second general orders), 8 June 1780
Author: Washington, George
Date: 8 June 1780

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Cite as: “General Orders (second general orders), 8 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0236. [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, p. 356.]