The demand for 3Iedicines is very great ; and we "cannot procure a sufficiency, at any rate." -- {Doctor John Morgan, Medical Director of the Army, to John Jay, " North-Castle, October 28, "1776.")

A letter from Doctor John Pine, of the Maryland Line, to James Tilghman, of .\nnapolis, dated, "Camp at White-Plains, November 7, " 1776," contains a detailed statement of the entire destitution of the Army, and of the consequent sufferings of the sick and wounded.

>3"The Rebel Army are in so wretched a condition, as to Clothing and "Accoutrements, that I believe no Nation ever saw such a set of tatterde- " malions. There are few Coats among them b\it what are out at " elbows ; and in a whole Regiment there is scarce a pair of Breeches. " Judge, then, how flicy must be pinched by a Winter Campaign." -- {Letter from an Offlcr of the Sixty-fourth Regiment to his friend in London, "New-York, October 30, 1776," re-printed in Force's American Archives, v., ii., 1293, 1294.)

" We are requested by the Generals of our State to inform you of the "absolute necessity our troops are in for want of Clothing." -- {Charles D. Witt, Robert Harper, and Lewis Graham to the President of the Xew York Convention, " White Plains, October 24, 1776.")

" The Colonel and Major Barber came here, last evening; and the "Regiment is now within a few miles of this place, marching with " cheerfulness ; but great part of the men ['""<>] barefooted and barelegged." {Richard Stockton to Abram Clark, " Saratoga, October 28 "1776.")