So late as the 20th of June, General Washington informed congress, that he still laboured under the painful and humiliating embarrassment of having no shirts for the soldiers, many of whom were destitute of that necessary article.

"For the troops to be without clothing at any time," he added, "is highly injurious to the service, and distressing to our feelings; but the want will be more peculiarly mortifying when they come to act with those of our allies.

If it be possible, I have no doubt, immediate measures will be taken to relieve their distress.
[Footnote 40: This instance of patriotism on the part of our fair and amiable countrywomen, is far from being single.

Their conduct throughout the war was uniform.

They shared with cheerfulness and gaiety, the privations and sufferings to which the distress of the times exposed their country.