B. Extracts from the Secretary of War's letters to the late Major General Greene. July 10^th 1782. "The sufferings of your troops have impressed me with the deepest concern, and the very painful sensations, which your relation of them excites, are powerfully enhanced, that these distresses should have been the lot of an army, not only entitled, by special contract, to better fare, but whose meritorious and gallant exertions under the most [undecipherable] difficulties