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[256] Was.h.i.+ngton to Major-General Lee, Dec. 1, 1776; _ib._, V, 62.

[257] General Greene to Governor Cooke, Dec. 4, 1776; _ib._, footnote to 62.

[258] Was.h.i.+ngton to President of Congress, Dec. 12, 1776; _Writings_: Ford, v, 84.

[259] Was.h.i.+ngton to President of Congress, Dec. 24, 1776; _ib._, 129-30.

While Was.h.i.+ngton was desperately badly off, he exaggerates somewhat in this despondent report, as Mr. Ford's footnote (_ib._, 130) shows.

[260] Was.h.i.+ngton to President of Congress, Nov. 11, 1776; _ib._, 19.

[261] Was.h.i.+ngton to John Augustine Was.h.i.+ngton, Nov. 19, 1776; _Writings_: Ford, v, 38-39.

[262] Was.h.i.+ngton to President of Congress, Sept. 8, 1776; _ib._, iv, 397.

[263] Was.h.i.+ngton to John Augustine Was.h.i.+ngton, Sept. 22, 1776; _ib._, 429.

[264] Was.h.i.+ngton to Lund Was.h.i.+ngton, Sept. 30, 1776; _Writings_: Ford, iv, 457-59.

[265] Was.h.i.+ngton to John Augustine Was.h.i.+ngton, Feb. 24, 1777; _ib._, v, 252. The militia officers were elected ”without respect either to service or experience.” (Chastellux, 235.)

[266] Kapp, 115.

[267] _The Crisis_: Paine; _Writings_: Conway, i, 175.

[268] Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 66.

[269] The militia were worse than wasteful and unmanageable; they deserted by companies. (Hatch, 72-73.)

[270] Was.h.i.+ngton to Wharton, Oct. 17, 1777: _Writings_: Ford, vi, 118-19.

[271] _Ib._

[272] Was.h.i.+ngton to John Augustine Was.h.i.+ngton, Oct. 18, 1777; _ib._, 126-29.

[273] Livingston to Was.h.i.+ngton, Aug. 12, 1776; _Cor. Rev._: Sparks, i, 275.

[274] Lee to Was.h.i.+ngton, Nov. 12, 1776; _ib._, 305.

[275] Sullivan to Was.h.i.+ngton, March 7, 1777; _ib._, 353-54.

[276] Schuyler to Was.h.i.+ngton, Sept. 9. 1776; _ib._, 287.

[277] Smith to McHenry, Dec. 10, 1778; Steiner, 21.

[278] Chastellux, 44; and see Moore's _Diary_, i, 399-400; and _infra_, chap. IV.

[279] Was.h.i.+ngton to Livingston, Dec. 31, 1777; _Writings_: Ford, vi, 272.

[280] Was.h.i.+ngton to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777; _ib._, 260; and see _ib._, 267.

[281] _Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog._, 1890-91 (2d Series), vi, 79. Most faces among the patriot troops were pitted with this plague. Was.h.i.+ngton was deeply pockmarked. He had the smallpox in the Barbadoes when he was nineteen years old. (Sparks, 15.)