File January 31, 1778: Calls for parade duty. Volume 1, Page 18 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 1, 1778: Calls for a quartermaster's meeting. The entry also contains a Congress resolution from June 10, 1777 concerning military arrests. Volume 1, Pages 18-19 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 2, 1778: A systematic collection of broken and worn-out axes. Volume 1, Page 20 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 3, 1778: A report circulating that a Mr. Jones had granted a pass to a woman who carried 3 pounds of butter into Philadelphia. Volume 1, Page 21 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 4, 1778: Court-martial for a soldier in the 1st New Jersey Regiment for desertion and enlisting again as a substitute. Also: "The most Pernicious consequences having arisen from persons, women in particular being allowed to pass & repass from Philadelphia to camp, under pretense of coming out to visit their friends in the army, & returning with necessities for their families, but, really, with an intent to intice the soldiers to desert...[officers must forbid] the soldiers, under the severest penalties, from having any communication with such persons." Volume 1, Pages 21-23 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 5, 1778: A resolution from Congress ( June 10, 1777) concerning accounts for rations. Volume 1, Pages 23-25 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 6, 1778: Court-martial for officer William Williams of the 13th Virginia Regiment, for buying a soldier's shoes ("and thereby rendering the soldier unfit for service'), for messing and sleeping with the soldiers, and for taking bread from soldiers without paying them for it. Brigade order: concerning the resale of liquor. Volume 1, Pages 25-27 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 7, 1778: Accounting for the morning guard duty. Volume 1, Page 27 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 8, 1778: A call for an officer meeting concerning rations, also detailing marching orders, and a number of courts-martial for theft, carrying food to Philadelphia, supplying intelligence to the enemy, attempting to drive cattle to the enemy, steeling sheep and selling them to a butcher in Philadelphia. Volume 1, Pages 28-36 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778
File February 9, 1778: Punishments were postponed because of weather. Volume 1, Page 36 In: Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778 » Valley Forge Headquarters orderly book, 1778