General Orders, 2 July 1781
General Orders
Head Quarters Tarrytown [N.Y.]1 Monday July 2d 1781.
Parole. Countersigns [ ]
[Officers] For the day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Huntington[,] Lieutenant Colonel Badlam[,] Major Trescott. Inspector—starks Brigade.
No Drum to beat without particular order.
Officers and Soldiers are to refresh themselves and be within call of their Arms which are for the present to be stacked.
No person not belonging to the Army is to be permitted to pass through the Camp without being carried to the General or one of the field Officers of the day who will examine him or her very critically and suffer none to pass of suspicious Character or who does not give a satisfactory Account.
Peregrine Fitzhugh Esqr. Lieutenant in the third regiment of Dragoons is appointed an Extra Aid de camp to the Commander in Chief and to be respected accordingly.2
Major Platt will for the present do the duty of Aid to Major General Lord stirling and is to be respected as such.3
Peter Taulman Esqr. Lieutenant in late Colonel spencer’s Regiment is appointed Captain Lieutenant in the Corps of Sappers and Miners and is to be obeyed accordingly.4
The Commander in Chief cannot but express his satisfaction at the good order and regularity with which this day’s march has been executed.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. Dr. James Thacher wrote in his journal entry for 5 July: “The reveille beat at three o’clock on the 2d instant, when we marched, and reached Tarrytown in the evening; the weather being extremely hot, the troops were much fatigued. Halted at Tarrytown about two hours, and then proceeded” (, 264).
2. For this arrangement, see GW to William Fitzhugh, 25 March, and n.12.
3. Richard Platt had resigned as deputy quartermaster general to the main army (see Timothy Pickering to GW, 29 June).
4. Despite being suspended for three months beginning in February 1783 after a court-martial found him guilty of misconduct, Capt. Lt. Peter Taulman served in the corps of sappers and miners until the end of the war (see General Orders, 13 Feb. 1783).