I imagine the General has given you further directions respecting the removal of the military stores. You will make yourself acquainted with his intentions relative thereto, and dispatch those wagons, and others you may have got, with all expedition. I am, sir, your obedient servant, PAUL WOOLFOLK, A. C. M. Stores. WM. PORTER, C. M. S., Broadwater. BLAND'S TAVERN, Va., April 21, 1781. SIR: You will receive by four wagons a quantity of damaged arms, sent up from Broadwater. You will dispose of them agreeably to the directions you receive from the Baron Steuben or Major Pryor. The number is not ascertained, being those you had an account of below. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Mr. WM. PORTER, C. M. Stores. PAUL WOOLFOLK, A. C. M. Stores. CHESTERFIELD COURT-HOUSE, Va., April 25, 1781. SIR-By two wagons you will receive 230 guns, which were taken from Petersburg yesterday. I believe them to be a part of the arms taken from Broadwater. You will charge me with two guns, which I furnished the militia with yesterday. Those are the whole left in Petersburg. On my way down, I met with General Muhlenburgh, Cabin Point, and returned again to Prince George. Mr. Robert Smith is sent down to remove all the stores remaining at Broadwater. I gave him your letters and instructions for what you were in want of at that place. I am now on my way to Richmond. Mr. Edward Moore is appointed to act below in my place. I am, sir, your obedient servant, PAUL WOOLFOLK, A. C. M. Stores. CHESTERFIELD COURT-HOUSE, VA., April 25, 1781. SIR:-The bearer waits on you with a wagon for the following ammunition, viz.: 100 sixth-round cartridges, 50 six-pound canister cartridges, 24 port-fires, and 100 sixth tubes. You have not been explicit enough in your return. You men If not, tion 18 boxes of cannon cartridges, but do not mention the size, though I think there must be the sixth among them. send express for those to Goochland Court-house. Tubes are at the last-mentioned place. Do not detain the whole for a deficiency of a part, but send off what you have immediately, and the balance will follow as soon as possible down the road leading to this place, or where you may hear the army is. There has been a pretty severe action this afternoon at Petersburg. The enemy have possession of that place, and our army has retreated to a few miles below this, and are to march to-morrow morning at four o'clock up to this place, and further up the road if necessary. Our men behaved exceedingly well, but, overpowered by numbers, were obliged to retire. Our loss was about fifty killed and wounded, and the enemy's considerably more by every account. If you have any musket-cartridges, send them also. Be as expeditious as possible, as we are nearly out of ammunition. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, J. PRYOR, Field Com. Mil. Stores. Mr. WM. PORTER, } CAMP, COAL-PIT, VA., April 30, 1781. SIR: I received by the wagoner the articles mentioned in your letter, and have also sent you 59 muskets, 57 bayonets, 39 cartridgeboxes, part of a barrel of damaged cartridges and bullets, and two barrels of powder. The powder and bullets I received at Petersburg, which you will receive. The bayonets, cartridge-boxes, and muskets are all damaged; also some of them you sent are not fit for use. I have never seen Smith since I came down, but will make inquiry for pork, &c. I will speak to the General for the armorers, and I am, with esteem, Your obedient servant, Mr. W. PORTER, C. M. Stores. EDWARD MOORE, C. M. Stores. CHESTERFIELD COURT-HOUSE, VA., May 5, 1781. SIR-You will take under your charge five wagons, containing 400 stand of arms, complete with bayonets, &c., 200 leather cartridges, two hundred tin canisters, and two thousand flints, and you will proceed immediately to Suffolk. Immediately on your arrival, you will acquaint General Muhlenburgh of it. You will not by any means deliver any of the above articles without General Muhlenburgh's particular order. You will set out from this place this evening, or to-morrow-morning very early, so that you may arrive at Suffolk by the 8th instant. By order of Major-general Steuben. WM. PORTER, C. M. Stores. JAMES FAIRLIE, Aid-de-Camp. RICHMOND, May 6, 1781. SIR-Yours dated yesterday, at Carter's Ferry, just came to hand. I am happy to hear you have got a shop and set the armorers to work. As they are fixed, they may remain where they are till further orders, and continue to repair arms with all expedition. Colonel Davis' orders, I think, were very proper, only I do not suppose he knew a large quantity of powder will be immedi ately wanted for a battery of four 24-pounders and four 18-pounders, at Hood's Creek. I have called on Captain Brown for the balls and every other necessary that must be brought down immediately. I would wish you to send down all the cannon ammunition fit for service, musket ammunition, arms in repair with bayonets fitted to them, and an equal number of cartridge-boxes, sky-rockets, and port-fires, and tubes, if you have any, to Westham, addressed to Mr. McRoberts, Field Commissary of Military Stores, whom I have appointed as such, and I will direct some person to receive them. The loose balls are of no use in camp. You will therefore send them to the laboratory at Goochland Court-house, taking a receipt for them; and all the other military stores you will have carried up to Point of Fork, and deposited in some secure house, under the eye of some careful person who will take charge of them. You will send all the empty cartridge-boxes you may have, or can pro cure, to the laboratory, to pack cartridges in, to be sent down to the army, they being much wanted, barrels having been made use of for the want of them. After you have done what is above required, you will make Mr. Gray, who I suppose is at the head of the armory, responsible for the arms, &c., left in his care, and press him to push their repairs as much as possible—then you may go home to Broadwater, and have all the arms, &c., in that quarter, brought immediately upthose in repair to be left with the new levies at Chesterfield Courthouse, and the damaged ones carried up to Colonel James's or the armory for repairs. I did expect a complete return of all the stores you had in charge, as well as the horse-accoutrements I requested you to take charge of. You may re-deliver them to the Quartermaster, as they are not in your department, and render him an account of your issues of them, and show him your authority for so doing. You will please to be very particular in this, and send me a similar account of them. I am, sir, your obedient and humble servant, Mr. W. PORTER, C. M. S., Carter's Ferry. November 9, 1782. SIR :-Pursuant to the orders of Major-general Greene, of the 2d and 3d days of November, 1782, we have formed the 1st and 3d regiments of dragoons, now serving in the State of South Carolina, into five troops, agreeably to an order of the Secretary of War, to be commanded by the following officers, viz.: George Baylor, Colonel, commissioned January 8, 1777. John Swan, Major, commissioned October 21, 1780. Churchill Jones, Captain, do. June 1, 1777. Ambrose Gordon, 1st Lieut., commissioned December, 1779. Doctor Rose being sick at present, and unable to do immediate duty, Doctor Wallace is arranged to do the duty of Surgeon to the regiment until the recovery of Dr. Rose. It is the opinion of the Board that a Court of Inquiry be, as soon as possible, ordered to determine the rank of the officers, to the end that the dates of their commissions may be inserted in the arrangement. We have arranged the officers of the 1st and 3d regiments to a command in the five troops, in proportion to the number of troops in each corps, from the principle of their being entitled to promotion regimentally. (No address.) Your obedient servants, ANTHONY WAYNE, B. G. JOHN SWAN, Major L. D. CHURCHILL JONES, Captain L. D. NEW HAVEN, Jan. 10, 1783. SIR:-The circumstances of my business render it impossible for |