[370] Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 258.
[371] "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.)
[372] Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 341.
[373] Hist. Mag., v, 131.
[374] Ib.
[375] Ib., 132.
[376] Hist. Mag., v, 132-33.
[377] Hist. Mag., v, 131-32.
[378] Trevelyan, iv, 297.
[379] Ib. For putrid condition of the camp in March and April, 1778, see Weedon, 254-55 and 288-89.