Supplying Washington's ArmyCenter of Military History, United States Army, 1981 - 470 pages |
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Page 176 - ... not only by the common vulgar but by those in power, it is time to speak plain in exculpation of myself. With truth, then, I can declare that no man, in my opinion, ever had his measures more impeded than I have by every department of the army. "Since the month of July we have had no assistance from the quartermaster-general, and to want of assistance from this department the commissary-general charges great part of his deficiency.
Page 6 - Instead of having magazines filled with provisions, we have a scanty pittance scattered here and there in the different States. — Instead of having our arsenals well supplied with military stores, they are poorly provided, and the workmen all leaving them...
Page 140 - It is very diverting to walk among the camps. They are as different in their form as the owners are in their dress; and every tent is a portraiture of the temper and taste of the persons who encamp in it. Some are made of boards, and some of sail-cloth.
Page 235 - ... every idea you can form of our distresses, will fall short of the reality. There is such a combination of circumstances to exhaust the patience of the soldiery, that it begins at length to be worn out, and we see in every line of the army...
Page 6 - Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Page 342 - We have maintained our ground against the enemy, under this want of powder, and we have disbanded one army and recruited another within musket shot of two and twenty regiments, the flower of the British army, whilst our force has been but little, if any, superior to theirs; and, at last, have beaten them into a shameful and precipitate retreat out of a place the strongest by nature on this Continent, and strengthened and fortified at an enormous expense.
Page 6 - States to provide these things for their troops respectively ; instead of having a regular system of transportation established upon credit, or funds in the quartermaster's hands to defray the contingent expenses...
Page 305 - & I must confess that the latter would make a better appearance had they " a sufficiency of hats, but as Congress don't seem to think that an essential . . . part of uniform, they mean to leave us uniformly bare-headed— as well as bare-footed — and if they find that we can bare it tolerably well in the two extremes, perhaps they may try it in the center?
Page 6 - Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command.
Page 5 - ... that such a force as Great Britain has employed for eight years in this country could be baffled in their plan of subjugating it, by numbers infinitely less, composed of men oftentimes half starved, always in rags, without pay, and experiencing at times every species of distress, which human nature is capable of undergoing.