“To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 21 January 1776 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-03-02-0113. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 3, 1 January 1776 – 31 March 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 163.]