But underlying them all was the permanent Washington, deferent, plain of speech, direct, yet slow in forming or expressing an opinion.

Most men, after they had been with him awhile, felt a sense of his majesty grow upon them, a sense that he was made of common flesh like them, but of something uncommon besides, something very high and very precious.
Washington found that he had sixteen thousand troops under his command near Boston.

Of these two thirds came from Massachusetts, and Connecticut halved the rest.

During July Congress added three thousand men from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.

They lacked everything.
In order to give them some uniformity in dress, Washington suggested hunting-shirts, which he said "would have a happier tendency to unite the men and abolish those Provincial Distinctions which lead to jealousy and dissatisfaction." Among higher officers, jealousy, which they made no attempt to dissemble or to disguise, was common.