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12. Rankin, “Waldo Diary,” Narratives of the American Revolution, p. 182.
13. Ebenezer Crosby to Norton Quincey, April 14, 1778, Boyle, I: 103–104.
14. Rankin, “Waldo Diary,” December 25, 1777.
15. A. Craigie to Jonathan Potts, April 4, 1778; John Cochran to Jonathan Potts, March 22, 1778; Thomas Herbert to Jonathan Potts, March 25, 1778; J. B. Cuttings to Jonathan Potts, March 16, 1778, VFHP.
16. Jedediah Huntington to GW, January 1, 1778, VFHP.
17. Benjamin Rush to Patrick Henry, January 12, 1778, in Carl Binger, Revolutionary Doctor, Benjamin Rush, 1746–1813, New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1966, p. 133; Dr. William Brown letter to unknown friend, January 20, 1778, VFHP.
18. Rankin, “Waldo Diary,” p. 201.
19. Benjamin Rush to Horatio Gates, February 4, 1778, VFHP.
20. Leven Powell to Sarah Powell, January 21, 1778, Dodd, John Branch Historical Papers, pp. 36–38. 21. GW to William Livingston, December 21, 1777, GWW X: 233.
22. James Sproat, Journal of Rev. Dr. James Sproat, Pennsylvania Historical Society Library, in Gibson, p. 326.
23. James Craig to Jonathan Potts, May 15, 1778, VFHP.
24. Rankin, “Waldo Diary,” p. 185.
25. GW to Henry Laurens, December 23, 1777, GWW X: 192–198.
26. Jedediah Huntington to Jabez Huntington, Jan 7, 1778, VFHP.
27. Thomas Jones to Charles Stewart, Feb. 16, 1778, Charles Stewart Papers, NYHS.
Chapter Twenty
1. Enoch Anderson, Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson, an Officer of the Delaware Regiments in the Revolutionary War, with Notes by Henry Hobard Bellas, L.L.B., Captain of the U.S. Army, Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1896, pp. 36–37.
2. James Flexner, George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775–1783, pp. 219–224.
3. Joseph Clark, Diary of Joseph Clark, NJ Historical Society Proceedings, VII: 96, 98–99; Elias Dayton narrative, Elias Dayton Papers, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ.
4. Quincy, Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, pp. 34–35.
5. Edward Fields, Ed., Diary of Colonel Israel Angell, Commanding the Second Rhode Island Continental Regiment During the American Revolution, 1778–1781, Providence, 1899, pp. xii-xiii.
6. John Trussell Jr., Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment, Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1998, pp. 34–35.
7. John Paterson to Thomas Marshall, Feb. 23, 1777, Boyle, II: 66–68.
8. Archelaus Lewis to Jesse Partridge, February 1, 1778, Boyle I: 39–40.
9. Peter Force Mss., Series E., New Hampshire Council, David Library of the American Revolution; Library of Congress.
10. Samuel Carlton to General William Heath, January 28, 1778, Boyle I: 37–38.
11. Charles Scott to George Washington, January 14, 1777, Boyle I: 22–23.
12. Richard Platt to Alexander McDougall, January 24, 1778, VFHP.
13. Richard Butler to Thomas Wharton Jr., March 26, 1778, Boyle, II: 94–95.
14. John McDowell to Col. David Grier, January 16, 1778, Boyle II: 24–25.
15. William Duane, Ed., Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, 1774–1781, Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1877, pp. 161–162.
16. James Gray to Susan Gray, December 24, 1777, Boyle I: 4.
17. Elias Boudinot to Elisha Boudinot, September 23, 1777, George Adams Boyd, Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman, 1740–1821, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, reprint, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969, p. 43.
18. Anonymous letter of William Weeks, Feb. 16, 1778, Hiram Bingham Jr. Five Straws Gathered from Revolutionary Fields, Cambridge, MA, 1901, pp. 23–25.
19. Jonathan Todd to Jonathan Todd Sr., Dec. 25, 1777, Boyle, II: 6–7.
20. Enoch Poor to Mesech Weare, January 21, 1778, Force MSS, series 7-E, New Hampshire Council, Library of Congress; Wayne Bodle and Jacqueline Thibault, Valley Forge Historical Report, Valley Forge, PA: Valley Forge Historical Park, 1980, 3 vols., I: 160–161; Henry Laurens to William Livingston, Ibid. III: 142.
21. Governor and Council Letters, Massachusetts State Archives, Force Mss., Series 7E, David Library; Library of Congress.
22. George Ewing, The Military Journal of George