To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 12 September 1780
From Samuel Huntington
Philadelphia September 12. 1780
sir,
By the Acts of Congress of the 8. & 11. Instant enclosed, your Excellency will be informed of the Measures Congress have recommended at present to reinforce, and supply Provisions for, the southern Army.
You will please to observe by the latter, the Expediency of immediately sending forward to the southern Army a Corps of Artillery and reinforcement of Cavalry &c. is referred to the Commander in Chief.1
Since the enclosed Acts were passed, your Despatches of the 8. & 9. Instant have been received this Day and will claim the earliest Attention of Congress.2 I have the Honor to be with the highest respect Your Excellency’s mos. humble & obedient Servant
Sam. Huntington President
LS, DLC:GW; LB, DNA:PCC, item 15.
1. The enclosed congressional resolutions adopted on 8 Sept. detailed measures to provide “magazines of provisions & forage for fifteen thousand men for six months” to support “the southern army” and urged officials in North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland to fill their troop quotas (DLC:GW; see also , 18:812–13, and Circular to the States, 2 June, n.1).
The enclosed congressional resolutions adopted on 11 Sept. added “five thousand barrels of flour” to the quota for Virginia and authorized GW to send artillery and cavalry reinforcements “to the southern Army” (DLC:GW; see also , 18:818).
2. GW replied to Huntington on 15 Sept.; see also GW to Huntington, 8 and 9 September.