In Answer to your application of the Day, I can have no hesitation to allow you the indulgence you ask; you may therefore repair to Virginia on your private Business, but I shall expect to have you near me in the Spring should the War be continued, & in the mean time exert yourself I pray you...

I cannot express how much I regret your absence, at a time when Scenes of the highest national import, of Splendour & I trust of Glory await this army—all I can now say to you is, hasten on to the four Corners & pursue the Route opened by Majr Genl Hampton—“in confidence” I hope we may...

By a letter of the 12th ...

You will assemble the recruits & other parts of your Regiment whether in Virginia or Maryland & march them to Sackets harbor or to Fort George as Gen. Wilkinson may direct. The Sunbury (Pena) route will be the best. At Avon the roads to the two posts indicated, meet. I am Sir, with great...