George Washington to Major General Arthur St. Clair, 25 April 1781
To Major General Arthur St. Clair
Head Quarters New Windsor 25th April 1781
Dear Sir
I have recd your favors of the 6th and 15th.1 I am sorry to find from the last, that unavoidable obstacles have been thrown in the way of the march of the 1st division of the line at the time you expected. I can only recommend to you to get them off as soon as possible and in as good temper as possible. It is essential that General Greene should be regularly advised of the motions of those troops, you will therefore be pleased, if you have not already opened a correspondence with him, to inform him from time to ⟨time of⟩ every circumstance relating to them.2
Capt. Craig of Colo. procters Regt of Artillery, who is stationed at Fort pitt, has applied to me to have his Company compleated—That cannot be done in the present state of the Regt but you will be pleased to consult the commanding Officer of it, and let Capt. Craig have as many Men as will put his Company on a level with the others.3
I imagine Colo. Harrisons Regiment—Colo. procters—a detachment with the Marquis and a strong Maryland Company lately gone from hence will be sufficient to work the Artillery that General Greene will usually carry into the feild with him. I am with great Regard Dear Sir Your most obt Servt
Go: Washington
LS (without cover), in Tench Tilghman’s writing, PPAmP: David Library; Df, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. GW signed the cover of the LS, which is addressed to St. Clair at Philadelphia. St. Clair docketed the cover: “General Washington April 25th 1781 New Windsor” (OHi: Arthur St. Clair Papers). Mutilated material on the LS is supplied in angle brackets from the draft, which Tilghman also penned.
1. See St. Clair to GW, 6 and 15 April.
2. St. Clair wrote Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene on 6 May to report that Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne would soon march with 1,100 men from the Pennsylvania line (see , 8:216).
3. See GW to Isaac Craig, this date, found at Craig to GW, 15 April, n.4.