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Название: The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788

Автор: Albert J. Beveridge

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252

Washington to Reed, Feb. 10, 1776; ib., 413.

253

Washington to Committee of Safety of New York, April 27, 1776; Writings: Ford, iv, 51-52.

254

Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 20, 1776; ib., 422.

255

Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 24, 1776; ib., 439.

256

Washington to Major-General Lee, Dec. 1, 1776; ib., v, 62.

257

General Greene to Governor Cooke, Dec. 4, 1776; ib., footnote to 62.

258

Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 12, 1776; Writings: Ford, v, 84.

259

Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 24, 1776; ib., 129-30. While Washington was desperately badly off, he exaggerates somewhat in this despondent report, as Mr. Ford's footnote (ib., 130) shows.

260

Washington to President of Congress, Nov. 11, 1776; ib., 19.

261

Washington to John Augustine Washington, Nov. 19, 1776; Writings: Ford, v, 38-39.

262

Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 8, 1776; ib., iv, 397.

263

Washington to John Augustine Washington, Sept. 22, 1776; ib., 429.

264

Washington to Lund Washington, Sept. 30, 1776; Writings: Ford, iv, 457-59.

265

Washington to John Augustine Washington, Feb. 24, 1777; ib., v, 252. The militia officers were elected "without respect either to service or experience." (Chastellux, 235.)

266

Kapp, 115.

267

The Crisis: Paine; Writings: Conway, i, 175.

268

Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 66.

269

The militia were worse than wasteful and unmanageable; they deserted by companies. (Hatch, 72-73.)

270

Washington to Wharton, Oct. 17, 1777: Writings: Ford, vi, 118-19.

271

Ib.

272

Washington to John Augustine Washington, Oct. 18, 1777; ib., 126-29.

273

Livingston to Washington, Aug. 12, 1776; Cor. Rev.: Sparks, i, 275.

274

Lee to Washington, Nov. 12, 1776; ib., 305.

275

Sullivan to Washington, March 7, 1777; ib., 353-54.

276

Schuyler to Washington, Sept. 9. 1776; ib., 287.

277

Smith to McHenry, Dec. 10, 1778; Steiner, 21.

278

Chastellux, 44; and see Moore's Diary, i, 399-400; and infra, chap. IV.

279

Washington to Livingston, Dec. 31, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 272.

280

Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777; ib., 260; and see ib., 267.

281

Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., 1890-91 (2d Series), vi, 79. Most faces among the patriot troops were pitted with this plague. Washington was deeply pockmarked. He had the smallpox in the Barbadoes when he was nineteen years old. (Sparks, 15.)

282

Weedon, Jan. 6, 1778, 183.

283

Hatch, 135; and Kapp, 109.

284

Proc., Mass. Hist. Soc. (2d Series), vi, 93.

285

Ib. Entries of desertions and savage punishment are frequent in Wild's Diary; see p. 135 as an example. Also see Moore's Diary, i, 405.

286

Weedon, 14.

287

Ib., Sept. 3, 1777, 30.

288

Ib., Sept. 15, 1777, 52. And see Sept. 6, p. 36, where officers as well as privates are ordered "instantly Shot" if they are "so far lost to all Shame as basely to quit their posts without orders, or shall skulk from Danger or offer to retreat before orders."

289

Livingston to Webb, May 28, 1781; Writings: Ford, ix, footnote to 267.

290

One reason for the chaotic state of the army was the lack of trained officers and the ignorance of the majority of common soldiers in regard to the simplest elements of drill or discipline. Many of the bearers of commissions knew little more than the men; and of such untrained officers there was an overabundance. (Hatch, 13-15.) To Baron von Steuben's training of privates as well as officers is due the chief credit for remedying this all but fatal defect. (Kapp, 126-35; also infra, chap. IV.)

291

For statement of conditions in the American army throughout the war see Hatch; also, Bolton.

292

The States were childishly jealous of one another. Their different laws on the subject of rank alone caused unbelievable confusion. (Hatch, 13-16. And see Watson, 64, for local feeling, and inefficiency caused by the organization of the army into State lines.)

293

Hatch says that Connecticut provided most bountifully for her men. (Hatch, 87.) But Chastellux found the Pennsylvania line the best equipped; each Pennsylvania regiment had even a band of music. (Chastellux, 65.)

294

"The only garment they possess is a blanket elegantly twined about them. You may judge, sir, how much this apparel graces their appearance in parade." (Inspector Fleury to Von Steuben, May 13, 1778; as quoted in Hatch, 87.)

295

Diary of Joseph Clark; Proceedings, N.J. Hist. Soc. (1st Series), vii, 104. The States would give no revenue to the general Government and the officers thought the country would go to pieces. (Hatch, 154.)

296

Heitman, 285.

297

Binney, in Dillon, iii, 284.

298

Washington to Committee of Congress, July 19, 1777; Writings: Ford, v, 495.

299

Washington to President of Congress, Aug. 23, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 50; also see Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 126.

300

Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 126.

301

Ib., 127.

302

On this subject see Waldo's poem, Hist. Mag., vii, 274; and Clark's Diary, Proc., N.J. Hist. Soc., vii, 102.

303

Weedon, Aug. 23, 1777, 19.

304

Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 127.

305

Ib., 128; and see Trevelyan, iv, 226.

306

Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 127-29; ib. (2d ed.), i, 154-56; Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 3, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 64-65.

307

Story, in Dillon, iii, 335.

308

Washington to President of Congress, Sept 11, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 69.

309

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