The officers from Massachusetts, conscious that they had seen the first fighting in the great cause, expected special consideration from a stranger serving on their own soil.

Soon they had a rude awakening.

Washington broke a Massachusetts colonel and two captains because they had proved cowards at Bunker Hill, two more captains for fraud in drawing pay and provisions for men who did not exist, and still another for absence from his post when he was needed.

He put in jail a colonel, a major, and three or four other officers.

"New lords, new laws," wrote in his diary Mr.Emerson, the chaplain: "the Generals Washington and Lee are upon the lines every day...