The demand for Medicines 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 Annapolis, 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.

is » 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 but what are out at " elbows ; and in a whole Regiment there is scarce a pair of Breeches. " Judge, then, how they must be pinched by a Winter Campaign." -- (Letter from an Officer of tlie 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 Barper, and Lewis Graham to the President of the New 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 [are] barefooted and barelegged." (Richard Stockton to Abram Clark, " Saratoga, October 28 "1776.")