COLONEL FLEURY TO HAMILTON.
L’Infantery Camp, 18th August, 1779.
Dear Colonel:
The officers of the two A Battalions of l’Infantery, which I actually command, have applied to me for ceasing to run over those craggy mountains barefooted, and beg that I would write to head quarters to have an order from his Excellency to get one pair of shoes for each; the shoes they hint to are at New Windsor, and their intention is to pay for.
Do not be so greedy for shoes as for my blanket, and think that the most urgent necessity has determined their application; they are quite barefooted.
I am very respectfully, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
L. Fleury.
N. B. As his Excellency could form a very advantageous idea of our being lucky in shoes by the appearance of the officers who dined to-day at head quarters, and were not quite without, I beg you would observe to him, if necessary, that each company had furnished a shoe for their dressing.
Camp l’Infantery, 19th August, 1779.
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