Good maps were needed, and in this Washington was badly served, though the defect was often corrected by his intimate knowledge of the country.

Another service ill-equipped was what we should now call the Red Cross.

Epidemics, and especially smallpox, wrought havoc in the army.

Then, as now, shattered nerves were sometimes the result of the strain of military life.

"The wind of a ball," what we should now call shellshock, sometimes killed men whose bodies appeared to be uninjured.