1From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee to Inquire into the State of the Army, 19 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
...kind of Vegetables—had but little Salt and Vinegar, which would have been a tolerable substitute for Vegetables, have been in a great measure strangers to—neither have they been provided with proper drink—Beer or Cyder seldom comes within the verge of the Camp, and Rum in much too small quantities. Thus, to devouring large quantities of animal-food, untemper’d by vegetables, or vinegar,...