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Trevelyan, iv, 281-82.
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Trevelyan, iv, 290.
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The huts were fourteen by sixteen feet, and twelve soldiers occupied each hut. (Sparks, 245.)
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"The men were literally naked [Feb. 1] some of them in the fullest extent of the word." (Von Steuben, as quoted in Kapp, 118.)
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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777;
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Marshall, i, 213.
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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777;
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"The poor soldiers were half naked, and had been half starved, having been compelled, for weeks, to subsist on simple flour alone and this too in a land almost literally flowing with milk and honey." (Watson's description after visiting the camp, Watson, 63.)
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Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 341.
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Trevelyan, iv, 297.
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Trevelyan, iv, 298.
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Personal narrative; Shreve,
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Trevelyan, iv, 298.
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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 22, 1777;
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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777;
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General Varnum to General Greene, Feb. 12, 1778, Washington MSS., Lib. Cong., no. 21. No wonder the desertions were so great. It was not only starvation and death but the hunger-crazed soldiers "had daily temptations thrown out to them of the most alluring nature," by the British and Loyalists. (Chastellux, translator's note to 51.)
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Marshall, i, 227.
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Trevelyan, iv, 299.
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Marshall, i, 227.
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John Marshall's father was also at Valley Forge during the first weeks of the encampment and was often Field Officer of the Day. (Weedon.) About the middle of January he left for Virginia to take command of the newly raised State Artillery Regiment. (Memorial of Thomas Marshall;
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This was the common lot; Washington told Congress that, of the thousands of his men at Valley Forge, "few men have more than one shirt, many only the moiety of one and some none at all." (Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777;
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Slaughter, 107-08.
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Howe, 266.
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Slaughter, 108.
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Weedon, 134; also, Heitman, 285.
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Description of Marshall at Valley Forge by eye-witness, in
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Ninth Virginia. (Heitman, 72.)
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Weedon, Feb. 8, 1778, 226-27. Washington took the severest measures to keep officers from associating with private soldiers.
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See Washington's affecting appeal to the soldiers at Valley Forge to keep up their spirits and courage. (Weedon, March 1, 1778, 245-46.)
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Channing, ii, 559.
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See Rush's anonymous letter to Henry and the correspondence between Henry and Washington concerning the cabal. (Henry, i, 544-51.)
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Marshall, i, 217.
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Trevelyan, iv, 301.
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"The idea that any one Man Alone can save us is too silly for any Body but such weak Men as Duché to harbor for a Moment." (Adams to Rush, Feb. 8, 1778;
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Sparks, 252; and Marshall, i, 218.
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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777;