Anonymous Newburgh Addresses Circulated Among Officers

On March 10, 1783, anonymous letters — later identified as written by Major John Armstrong Jr. — began circulating at the Newburgh cantonment. The letters expressed the officers' frustrations with Congress and implied the army might need to take matters into its own hands. A meeting was called for March 11, later moved to March 15. Washington immediately called the meeting unauthorized and issued his own summons.