1From George Washington to Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr., Nathaniel Falconer, and Jonathan Mifflin, Jr., 15 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I this Minute received your Favor of the 14th Instant with its several Inclosures. I am constrained to inform you, that the situation of the Army is most critical and alarming for want of provision of the meat kind. Many of the Troops for four days and some longer have not drawn the smallest supplies of this Article. This being the case, it is needless to add to convince you of their distress....