[400] Ninth Virginia. (Heitman, 72.)

[401] North American Review (1828), xxvi, 8.

[402] Weedon, Feb. 8, 1778, 226-27. Washington took the severest measures to keep officers from associating with private soldiers.

[403] Ib., 227-28.

[404] Ib., Jan. 5, 1778; 180.

[405] See Washington's affecting appeal to the soldiers at Valley Forge to keep up their spirits and courage. (Weedon, March 1, 1778, 245-46.)

[406] Channing, ii, 559.

[407] See Rush's anonymous letter to Henry and the correspondence between Henry and Washington concerning the cabal. (Henry, i, 544-51.)

[408] Marshall, i, 217.

[409] Trevelyan, iv, 301.