December 1st
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ON THIS DAY IN 1779
CONTINENTAL ARMYARRIVES AT MORRISTOWN
“From the wretched and miserable condition of many of the Troops for want of their Cloathes, Many of them being absolutely naked, I must urge again in the most earnest terms, that you will use every possible and Instant exertion to have the clothing as formerly directed, brought forward that it may be delivered.”
James Wilkinson
National Park Service
To James Wilkinson
Morris Town, 19 December 1779
Sir,
From the wretched and miserable condition of many of the Troops for want of their Cloathes, Many of them being absolutely naked, I must urge again in the most earnest terms, that you will use every possible and Instant exertion to have the clothing as formerly directed, brought forward that it may be delivered. The public service, as well as the dictates of humanity require that it should be done without a moment’s delay. That there may not be any impediments on the score of transportation, you will apply to the Quarter Master Genl and inform him it is my desire that every practicable exertion should be made to get the Cloathing down. I am sir Yr Most Obedt servant.*
G:o Washington
* On 12 October 1779, Washington had written to The Board of War: “I believe I may say without exaggeration that we should lose the service of one third of the Men who could not march from this Ground, unless bare footed.” On 9 January 1780 Washington would write to Brigadier General Irvine: “Circumstanced as things are, (Men half starved, imperfectly Cloathed, riotous, and robbing the Country people of their subsistence from shear necessity) I think it scarcely possible to embrace any moment (however favorable in other respects) for visiting the enemy on Staten Island, and yet if this frost should have made a firm and solid bridge between them and us I should be unwilling, indeed I cannot, relinquish the idea of attempting it.”
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