Doctor Flag & Doctor Brydie1 will examine the sick on board the Hospital Schooner, and such of them as are on the Recovery are to be removed to some other vessels; Capt. Spence is to pay proper respect to any directions which shall be given him by Doctor Flag. The whole of the troops are to be embarked by low water, that the fleet may be ready to sail with the first of the flood. Colo. Pinkney2 will order an officer on shore to see that all the men are sent off, and that no arms, accoutrements or baggage is left behind. The commissary is to issue a gill of rum to each man pr. day till further orders.
S. ELBERT, C.C.
"Order Book of Samuel Elbert, Colonel and Brigadier General in the Continental Army, October 1776 to November 1778," Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, vol. V, Part 2, (Savannah, Ga.: The Morning News Print, 1902), p. 178.
1. Dr. Henry C. Flagg of the South Carolina Continental line, and David Bradie, a surgeon with the Second Georgia Continental Battalion.
2. Col. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, commander of the South Carolina brigade of Continentals.
