(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN) ANDERSON RICHARD CLOUGH Autograph Letter

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"A MOVEMENT WILL SHORTLY TAKE PLACE." (YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN.) ANDERSON, RICHARD CLOUGH. Autograph Letter Signed, "Richard C Anderson AGov," as Lieutenant Colonel, to Brigadier General George Weedon, reporting on General Washington's preparations to move on Yorktown. 1 page, folio, with integral address leaf; small seal hole in address leaf, faint seal stain in text area. Williamsburg [VA], 23 September 1781

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Five days before Washington emerged from Williamsburg to begin the Siege of Yorktown, Anderson writes: "At present there is no movement but as His Excellency General Washington came up yesterday and the Eastern troops are now in the river, I have reason to think a movement will shortly take place." The author, Colonel Richard Clough Anderson (1750-1826), had served as aide-de-camp to Lafayette and was then an aide to Virginia governor Thomas Nelson.