[323] Marshall, i, 160.
[324] Marshall, i, 160. When their enlistments expired, the soldiers took the Government's muskets and bayonets home with them. Thus thousands of muskets and bayonets continually disappeared. (See Kapp, 117.)
[325] Marshall, i, 160-61.
[326] Ib.
[327] Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 81-82.
[328] This is an inference, but a fair one. Maxwell was under Wayne; and Marshall was one of Maxwell's light infantry of picked men. (Supra.)
[329] Marshall, i, 161. "The British accounts represent the American loss to have been much larger. It probably amounted to at least three hundred men." (Ib., footnote.)
[330] Ib., and see Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., i, 305.
[331] Marshall repeatedly expresses this thought in his entire account of the war.
[332] Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 80.