[360] Trevelyan, iv, 281-82.
[361] Ib., 278-80.
[362] Ib., 268-69; also Marshall, i, 215. The German countrymen, however, were loyal to the patriot cause. The Moravians at Bethlehem, though their religion forbade them from bearing arms, in another way served as effectually as Washington's soldiers. (See Trevelyan, iv, 298-99.)
[363] Trevelyan, iv, 290.
[364] The huts were fourteen by sixteen feet, and twelve soldiers occupied each hut. (Sparks, 245.)
[365] "The men were literally naked [Feb. 1] some of them in the fullest extent of the word." (Von Steuben, as quoted in Kapp, 118.)
[366] Hist. Mag., v, 170.
[367] Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 260.
[368] Marshall, i, 213.
[369] Ib., 215.