Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Gates ya aike shi zuwa ga Congress da hukuma dispatches game da nasara a yakin Saratoga a 1777, Wilkinson kiyaye Continental Congress
jiran yayin da yake kula da al'amuran sirri. Lokacin da ya bayyana a karshe, ya yi ado da rawar da ya taka a cikin nasara, kuma an ba shi izini a matsayin brigadier janar (duk da cewa yana da shekaru 20 kawai a lokacin) a ranar 6 ga Nuwamba, 1777, kuma an nada shi zuwa sabon Kwamitin War. Haɓaka sama da manyan manyan jami'ai ya haifar da tashin hankali a tsakanin jami'an Nahiyar, musamman saboda jita-jitar Wilkinson kamar tana nuna cewa shi ɗan takara ne a cikin Conway Cabal, wani makirci don maye gurbin George Washington da Horatio Gates a matsayin babban kwamandan rundunar sojin Nahiyar. Ba da daɗewa ba Gates ya sami isasshen Wilkinson, kuma an tilasta wa matashin jami'in ya yi murabus a watan Maris na 1778. A ranar 29 ga Yuli, 1779, Majalisa ta nada shi janar-janar na Sojojin, amma ya yi murabus a ranar 27 ga Maris, 1781, saboda "rashin cancantar aikin".