[Copy of orders from the camp of General George Weedon]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06499 Author/Creator: Place Written: Fredericksburg, Virginia Type: Manuscript document Date: 27 August 1780- 24 October 1780 Pagination: 8 p. : Height: 30.2 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy
Mentions Colonel Febigen and Captains Lovely and Richardson. Discusses a survey of commissaries' stores, in which barrels of salt fish were deemed unfit for consumption. Refers to court martials, the trial of prisoners, and the prevention of embezzlement from a store of arms (6 September). Provides a list of several persons charged with desertion, and describes the proceedings of their court martial (8 September). Discusses the command of local drafts (27 September, 1 October).
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