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15. John Polhemus narrative, Leach Collection, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
16. James Wilkinson, Memoirs of My Time, 3 vols., Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1816, I: 131.
17. GW to John Cadwalader, Dec. 27, 1776, GWW VI: 446.
18. White, 77.
19. Powell, “A Connecticut Soldier Under Washington: Elisha Bostwick’s Memoirs of the First Years of the Revolution,” 102.
20. Dwyer, p. 293.
21. Rau, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, p. 269.
Chapter Fourteen
1. Ward, The War of the Revolution, I: 310.
2. Quincy, The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, The First American Consul at Canton, pp. 30–33.
3. Dwyer, The Day Is Ours, p. 325.
4. Dwyer, p. 333.
5. Catherine Williams, Biographies of Revolutionary Heroes, containing the life of General William Barton and also of Captain Stephen Olney, Providence: Catherine Williams, 1839, p. 196.
6. William Thompson to Leven Powell, January 10, 177, Dodd, John Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College, pp. 120–121.
7. Wilkinson, Memoir of My Time, I: 138.
8. Richard Wheeler, Voices of 1776, New York: Crowell, 1972, pp. 183–185; Dwyer, The Day is Ours, White Diary, Williams, Olney Memoir.
9. George McIntosh to John Muir, January 5, 1777, Dodd, pp. 119–120.
10. Horace Wells Sellers, “Charles Wilson Peale, Artist—Soldier,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 38, 1914, p. 280.
11. Thomas Rodney, Diary of Captain Thomas Rodney, 1776–1777, Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1888, p. 35.
12. Powell, William and Mary Quarterly, p. 105.
13. Dr. David Griffith to Leven Powell, Dec. 27, 1776, Dodd, Branch Historical Papers, pp. 46–47.
14. Freeman’s Journal, January 21, 1777.
Chapter Fifteen
1. Boatner, p. 654.
2. Colonel Jonathan Fitch to Governor Trumbull, August 13, 1776, in Force, American Archives V, I:938.
3. GW to John Hancock, January 31, 1777, GWW VII:80–81.
4. GW to Joseph Reed, November 28, 1775, GWW IV: 124–125.
5. GW to Major General Philomon Dickinson, January 21, 1777, GWW VII: 45–46.
6. Nathanael Greene to a friend, January 4, 1776, Richard Showman, Ed., The Papers of Nathanael Greene, 12 vols., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1976, hereafter cited as GREENE, I: 126–127.
7. Littell, ed., Alexander Graydon, Memoir of His Own Time, with Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the Revolution, p. 147.
Chapter Sixteen
1. Powell, William and Mary Quarterly, p. 100.
2. Hugh Rankin, Ed., “Abilgence Waldo Diary,” Narratives of the American Revolution, as Told by a Young Soldier, a Home-Sick Surgeon, a French Volunteer, and a German General’s Wife, Chicago: R.R. Donnelly and Son Company, 1976, p. 173.
3. Jabez Fitch Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 1894–1895, 2d series, vol. 9, pp. 53–61.
4. Jabez Fitch Diary, p. 53.
5. Almon Lauber, ed., Orderly Books of the Fourth New York Regiment, 1778–1780, the 2d New York Regiment, 1780–1783, with Diaries of Samuel Tallmadge and John Barr, 1779–1782, Albany, University of the State of New York, 1932, p. 633.
6. Scheer, Yankee Doodle, p. 123.
7. General orders, Aug. 22, 1775, GWW III: 444.
8. William Henshaw, Orderly Books . . . October 1, 1775, through October 3,1776, Worcester: Mass., 1948., p. 131.
9. Diary of Lt. Walter Finney, Chester County Historical Society.
10. Walter Hart Blumenthal, Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution, New York: Arno Press, 1974, p. 187–188.
11. Loammi Baldwin to his wife, June 17, 1776, Baldwin Papers, Harvard College Library, quoted in Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington: A Biography, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952, 7 vols., IV, p. 85.
12. Blumenthal, Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution, pp. 225–226.
13. Rebecca Symmes, ed., A Citizen Soldier in the American Revolution: The Diary of Benjamin Gilbert in Massachusetts and New York, Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1980, p. 30.
14. Symmes, p. 33.
15. Blumenthal, p. 59.
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