George Washington to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 24 June 1781
To Major Benjamin Tallmadge
Head Quarters N. Windsor 24th June 1781
sir
I have duly received your Favor of the 19th instant with its Inclosure.1
Be so good as to write me ⅌ the Chain of Exp[r]esses2 immediately on the Recept of this—& inform when the Count de Rochambeau leaves Hartford—by what Rout he intends to come on—& when he may be expected at my Head Quarters—which he will find at Peekskill.3 I am &c.
Df, in Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. A nearly complete transcription of the purported LS, which mirrors the draft, appears in Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., catalog no. 45, item 453. Tallmadge replied to GW on 25 June.
1. See Tallmadge to GW, 19 June.
2. For express riders between Rhode Island and New Windsor, see GW to Rochambeau, 20 Jan., and to Elisha Sheldon, 30 January.
3. GW’s army had marched to Peekskill (see General Orders, 18 and 19 June). For the march of the French army, see Rochambeau to GW, 15 June, n.2; see also Rochambeau to GW, 20 and 23 June. The French army joined GW’s army on 6 July (see the entry for that date in , 3:390).