United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns; Washington, George, 1732-1799
APPENDIX G.
NOTES OF LEE’S COURT-MARTIAL.
MAJOR-GENERAL LORD STIRLING, _President_.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL SMALLWOOD.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL POOR.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL WOODFORD.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL HUNTINGTON.
COLONEL IRVINE.
COLONEL SHEPARD.
COLONEL SWIFT.
COLONEL WIGGLESWORTH.
COLONEL ANGEL.
COLONEL CLARKE.
COLONEL WILLIAMS.
COLONEL FEBIGER.
JOHN LAWRENCE, _Judge-Advocate_.
The Court met July 1, 1778, at the house of Mr. Voorhees, New Brunswick,
N.J.
The charges were as follows:
_First_—For disobedience of orders, in not attacking the enemy on the
twenty-eighth of June, agreeably to repeated instructions.
_Second_—For misbehavior before the enemy on the same day, by making
an unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.
_Third_—For disrespect to the Commander-in-Chief, in two letters dated
the first of July and the twenty-eighth of June.
GENERAL LEE PLEAD “NOT GUILTY.”
On the twelfth of August, the Court found him to be _guilty_ under all
the charges, and sentenced him to be “suspended from any command in the
Armies of the United States of America, for the term of twelve months.”
Forty-two witnesses were examined. (See page 235 of text, for their
unanimity in vindication of Washington from use of any language not
proper, in his rebuke of Lee at the time of his retreat.)
The following are the letters that concluded with Lee’s demand for a
court-martial:
FIRST LETTER.
CAMP ENGLISH-TOWN, July 1, 1778.
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