The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

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State agent, for supplies of provision. Given at HeadQuarters, near York in Virginia, this 29th day of October, 1781.
P. S. If there are any men upon detachment, they
are to be called in and marched with their regiments.
A sufficient number of officers must be left to carry
on the sick and invalids as fast as they recover. Some
good field-officers should remain to superintend the
business.
TO MAJOR-GENERAL LINCOLN.
Instructions.
SIR,
All the troops, who are about to return to the northward, will be under your command; and I entreat you
to use every means in your power to hasten them
forward by land or water, or partly by both, as circumstances may require. The ordnance, and stores
of every kind, must be despatched, or in such train
for it as to need no further cover or aid from the troops,
ere they can move from their present encampment.
The ordnance vessels, and vessels carrying stores of
every other kind, should receive of sick, invalids, and
weak men, as many as they can transport with safety
and convenience; after which, if there is not wsater
transportation for the remainder, they must be marched
by land, on the route by which the cavalry and teams
came from the Head of Elk to this place.
For the reputation of the troops, and preservation of
property, you will use your utmost exertions to prevent any species of abuse on the march. Destruction
of fences is too often among the wanton injuries, whicli