In the hand of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Orders Moylan to prepare his cavalrymen to join St. Clair's detachment as he moves southward, but says he does "not mean to include Col. Armands Corps...." Officers may be left to send on the remaining corps expeditiously in order to minimize "that misapplication of time and means which, unhappily, are but too often met with in our service" A good and active officer of rank should have the general direction of the whole to prevent confusion - delay, and that misapplication of time and means, which, unhappily, are but too often met with in our service." On verso: York / 31 Octr. 1781 / Gen Washington Published in the Papers of George Washington, vol. 23, p. 312. Washington, La Rouiërie, Moylan, and St. Claire were all original members of the Society of the Cincinnati; Moylan and St. Claire, of the Pennsylvania Society; La Rouiërie of the French Society. Watermark: M W -- cf. Gravell. American watermarks, figures 685 and 687 (Willcox paper mill) Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati