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Box xii, Packet 39-11
Eleventh Camp at Falmouth. 12-16 July 1782. Fourteen miles from the precious camp. There was a "sejour," or extra day's rest here for each of the four divisions, so that two were in camp at the same time, as shown. The officers took advantage of the halt to make excursions in the vicinity. Clermont-Crèvecœur (p. 73)mentions a call on General Washington's mother in Fredericksburg (on the south bank of the Rappahannock, opposite Falmouth). Von Closen (pp. 210-211) speaks of visits to William Fitzhugh's house (Chatham) and to General Alexander Spotswood's estate at New Post. Blanchard ([1], p. 110) states that he set up and left at Falmouth a temporary hospital for 60 sick, who were later brought to Baltimore.