Richard Henry Lee to George Weedon

Agreeable to your call the one half of our militia are ordered to march tomorrow, amounting to 259 men rank & file, better armed and supplied in other respects than is usual with militia - the Officers in general are good, and assure me that they will remember the honor of Westmoreland and the good of their country - This will be delivered to you by Mr. John Monroe of this county - the young gentleman had the honor of a command in one of our minute corps at the beginning of the war, and deserves a much better situation than that of a private centinal - I know your disposition to befriend merit, nor do I doubt your friendly inclination to oblige me, and I assure you that I shall be singularly obliged by your kind attention to Mr. Monroe - he wishes to serve his country, and in a way more suitable to his past command than that of a rank & file man - I am sure that if you can contrive it, you will, in such a manner that he may be put to Service in a way more worthy of him - And that for this purpose he will have your own good will and that of your friends in the army - I have the honor to be my dear General

your friend & obedient Servant.

Richard Henry Lee