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American Archives, 6 series in 9 vols., Washington, D.C., 1837–1853, 4th Series, V:1098–1100.

Chapter Ten

1. Isaac Senter, The Journal of Isaac Senter, Physician and Surgeon to the Troops Detached from the American Army Encamped at Cambridge, Mass., on a Secret Expedition Against Quebec under the Command of Col. Benedict Arnold, in September, 1775, Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1846,; reprinted by New York Times Books-Arno Press, 1969, pp. 38–39.

2. Codman, Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec, p. 285.

3. Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82, New York: Hill and Wang, 2001, pp. 62–68.

4. Arnold’s general orders, March 26, 1776, in Doyen Salsig, ed., Parole: Quebec; Countersign: Ticonderoga; Second New Jersey Regimental Orderly Book, 1776, Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1980, pp. 55–56.

5. Fenn, Pox Americana, p. 113.

6. Smallpox in Colonial America, New York: New York Times-Arno Press, 1977, section four; Larry Gerlach, “Smallpox Inoculations in Colonial New Jersey,” in The Journal of the Rutgers University Library, December, 1967, pp. 21–28.

7. Dan Barber, History of My Own Times, p. 25.

8. Fenn, pp. 68–72.

9. Lemuel Roberts, Memoirs of Captain Lemuel Roberts, Containing Adventures in Youth, Vicissitudes Experienced as a Continental Soldier, His Sufferings as a Prisoner and Escapes from Captivity With Suitable Reflections on the Changes of Life, Bennington: Anthony Haswell, 1809; reprinted by New York Times-Arno Books, 1969, p. 34.

10. Lewis Beebe, “Journal of a Physician on the Expedition Against Canada,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. LIX, No. 4, October, 1935, p. 328.

11. J. J. Henry, Arnold’s Campaign Against Canada, Albany, Joel Munsell, 1877, pp. 134–139.

12. James Gibson, Dr. Bodo Otto and the Medical Background of the American Revolution, Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas, 1937, pp. 96–97.

13. Frye Bayley, Colonel Frye Bayley’s Reminiscences, Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, 1923– 1925, P. H. Gobe Press, 1926, pp. 34–35.

Chapter Eleven

1. Roberts, March to Quebec, p. 26.

2. Jonathan Trumbull to George Washington, July 9, 1776, quoted in Gibson, Dr. Bodo Otto and the Medical Background of the American Revolution, p. 99–100.

Chapter Twelve

1. W. Edmund Claussen, Patriots of the American Revolution, Boyertown, PA: W. Claussen, 1975, p. 73.

2. “John Henry’s Journal,” “James Melvin’s Journal,” in Roberts, March to Quebec, p. 443–444.

3. July 21, 1776, note, Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, NH, Concord, NH: 1903, frame 1039.

4. Benedict Arnold to Phillip Schuyler, October 12, 1776, Peter Force, American Archives, 5th Series, III: 253–254.

Chapter Thirteen

1. Dwyer, The Day Is Ours, pp. 152, 213.

2. Louise Rau, ed., “John Smith’s Diary of 1776,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XX, 1933–1934, pp. 247–270.

3. Jared Lobdell, ed., “Revolutionary War Journal of Sgt. Thomas McCarty,” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, No. 316, January, 1964, pp. 36–43.

4. Powell, “A Connecticut Soldier under Washington: Elisha Bostwick’s Memoirs of the First Years of the Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly, pp. 94–107.

5. Dwyer, p. 243.

6. Richard Ketchum, The Winter Soldiers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973.

7. William Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, Boston: Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1898, p. 133.

8. Theodore Thayer, Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1960, pp. 140–143.

9. David Ludlum, “The Weather of Independence: Trenton and Princeton,” in Weatherwise (August, 1975), 75–83.

10. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution, 2 vols, New York: MacMillan, 1952, I: 295.

11. Samuel Smith, The Battle of Trenton, Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press, 1965.

12. Richard Hansen, The Glorious Hour of Lieutenant Monroe, New York: Athenaeum, 1976, p. 153.

13. Sgt. Joseph White memoir, “The Good Soldier White,” American Heritage, June 1956, pp. 74–79.

14. James Flexner, George Washington in the American Revolution,

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