1From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 8 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
“Will not the situation of our affairs, on account of the depreciated condition of our currency, deficiency of bread—scarcity of forage—the exhausted state of our resources in the middle department and the general distress of the inhabitants—render it adviseable for the main body of the army to lie quiet in some favourable position for confining, as much...