[11] Secret Journals of Congress, v. 2, pp. 412, 418, 454.
[12] Secret Journals of Congress, v. 3, p. 249.
[13] In addition to the public documents and accounts, the author received a statement of this action in a letter from his friend Captain Parker.
[14] By a resolution of the preceding year, the inquiry into his conduct had been dispensed with, and he had been restored to his command in the army.
[15] See note, [No. I.] at the end of the volume.
[16] Gordon.
[17] See note, [No. II.] at the end of the volume.
[18] General Mifflin.
[19] "Resolved that the statue be of bronze: the general to be represented in a Roman dress, holding a truncheon in his right hand, and his head encircled with a laurel wreath. The statue to be supported by a marble pedestal on which are to be represented, in basso relievo, the following principal events of the war, in which General Washington commanded in person: the evacuation of Boston:—the capture of the Hessians at Trenton:—the battle of Princeton:—the action of Monmouth:—and the surrender of York.—On the upper part of the front of the pedestal to be engraved as follows: the United States in congress assembled, ordered this statue to be erected in the year of our Lord 1783, in honour of George Washington, the illustrious Commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States of America, during the war which vindicated and secured their liberty, sovereignty and independence."
[20] This resolution has been carried into execution. The statue it ordained now stands in the capitol of Virginia, in a spacious area in the centre of the building. A bust of the Marquis de Lafayette, which was also directed by the legislature, is placed in a niche of the wall in the same part of the building.