text:  Also around this time, she also had found out that George Washington had been made commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at this point, and she was a very big George Washington fan. I guess she's not alone. There's a lot of people who are George Washington fans out there. So she wrote a poem about him, actually, and carried correspondence with George Washington a few times. Before eventually getting correspondence back, he was actually apologetic that he was not able to speak with her sooner.