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23. Ewing, The Military Journal of George Ewing, p. 34.
24. Ewing, pp. 49–51.
25. GW to John Augustine Washington, June 10, 1778, GWW XII: 43.
Chapter Twenty-one
1. George Washington to Caleb Gibbs, April 22, 1777, GWW, VII: 452–453, GW to Alexander Spotswood, April 30, 1777, GWW VII: 494–495.
2. Maurer Maurer, “Military Justice Under General Washington,” Military Affairs, vol. 28, no. 1, 1964, p. 8.
3. Scheer, Yankee Doodle, pp. 45–46.
4. Thacher, pp. 195–196.
Chapter Twenty-two
1. George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776, GWW VI: 110–111.
2. Ambrose Ely Vanderpoel, History of Chatham, New Jersey, Chatham: Chatham Historical Society, 1959, pp. 82–91; John Cunningham, Chatham: At the Crossing of the Fishawack, Chatham: Chatham Historical Society, 1967, pp. 19–21.
3. Donald White, A Village at War: Chatham, New Jersey, and the American Revolution, Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1979, pp. 23–28.
4. White, A Village at War, p. 103.
5. New York Gazette, June 3,1778.
6. Papers of the New Jersey Provisional Congress.
7. Theodore Thayer, Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County, Morristown, Compton Press, for the Morris County Heritage Commission, 1975, pp. 255–256.
8. Thayer, Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County, pp. 85–87.
9. George Washington to Robert Morris, May 25, 1778, GWW XI: 453.
10. Scheer, Yankee Doodle, p. 126.
11. Scheer, Yankee Doodle, p. 127.
12. Boatner, pp. 719–725.
13. Flexner, George Washington in the American Revolution, pp. 303–309.
14. Earl Schenk Miers, Crossroads of Freedom, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1971, pp. 156–157.
15. New York Journal, July 13, 1778.
16. Williams, Biographies of Revolutionary Heroes, pp. 214–215.
17. Lender and Martin, Citizen Soldier, pp. 136–137.
18. Randall, George Washington, pp. 357–360.
19. Washington to Congress, GWW XII: 143–145.
20. Boatner, p. 725.
Chapter Twenty-three
1. Thayer, Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County, pp. 214–215.
Chapter Twenty-four
1. George Washington to William Heath, June 29, 1780, GWW XIX: 93.
2. Boatner, p. 883.
3. Edward Braddock to Robert Napier, March 17, 1755, Stanley Pargellis, ed., Military Affairs in North America, 1748–1765, New York, 1936, p. 78.
4. Glen Knoblock, “Strong and Brave Fellows”: New Hampshire’s Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Americans Revolution, 1775–1784, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co., 2003, pp. 149–151.
5. Samuel Allinson to Patrick Henry, October 12, 1774, Allinson Papers, Rutgers University Special Collections; James Otis, The Rights of British Colonists Asserted and Proved, 3rd ed., Boston, MA, 1766, pp. 43–44.
6. Fairfax Resolves, in Virginia Gazette, July 24, 1774; Washington on “tame and abject slaves,” George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, August 24, 1774, Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series X: 154–156.; “poor wretches,” George Washington to Lund Washington, GWW IV: 147–149.
7. Connecticut Military Records, 1775–1848, Hartford, 1889, p. 85, 90.
8. Knoblock, “Strong and Brave Fellows,” p. 20.
9. Knoblock, p. 22.
10. Sidney Kaplan, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770–1800, New York: Graphic Society for Smithsonian Institution, 1973, pp. 20–21.
11. Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961, pp. 13–15.
12. Graydon, Memoirs, p. 131.
13. General Persifor Frazer, “Some Extracts from the Papers of General Persifor Frazer,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 31, 1907, p. 134.
14. Philip Schuyler to George Washington, July 14, 1777, Jared Sparks, ed., Correspondence of the American Revolution, Being Letters of Eminent Men to George Washington from the Time of His Taking Command of the Army to the End of His Presidency,. 4 vols., Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1979, I: 398.
15. William Heath to Samuel Adams, August 27, 1777, Heath Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, 7th Series, 4 (1904), p.