War Diaries (February 13) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for February 13.

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Philip van Cortlandt: February 13, 1778

I have upwards of Seventy men unfit for Duty, only for want of the articles of Clothing; Twenty of which have no Breeches at all, so that they are obliged to take their Blankets to Cover their Nakedness, and as many without a Single Shirt, Stocking or Shoe ... about Thirty fit for Duty; the Rest Sick or lame, and God knows it won’t be long before they will all be laid up, as the poor Fellows are obliged to fitch wood and water on their Backs, half a mile with bare legs in Snow or mud.”

• Philip van Cortlandt, letter to George Clinton, February 13, 1778 - in Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801-1804 (New York: State of New York, 1900), 2:843-844.

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