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Created page with "No. 2. Extract of a letter from Major General Greene to Major General Lincoln, Secretary of War, dated, "head Quarters, South Carolina," "December 19th-1782.""
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"head Quarters, South Carolina,"
 
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"December 19th-1782."
 
"December 19th-1782."
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"You will see by some of my former letters, that, in con.
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sequence of your orders, I had taken measures, to provide
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such articles of clothing, as were nesfsary to complete that
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troops with their winter clothing. Mrfs. Banks and
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Company have furnished most of the articles we shall
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want, and will provide the rest. Mr. Hamilton, the clothier,
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had instructions to contract with such as would supply
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on the best terms, notwithstanding this agreement, but none
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offer their goods equally reasonble and yet I think they
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are high; however, the demand among the planters is so
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great, that they would need a ready sale among them,
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and at an advanced [[ ? ]]. Under the circumstances,
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contracts cannot be made on the best terms. The soldiers'
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clothing will amount to about fifty thousand dollars. I
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have advanced to the officers two months pay, by drawing
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bills on the Finances, which they will negotiate for
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clothing or other things, as their necsfsities may urge.
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"This will swell our drafts, but the peculiar situation
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of the officers, their long sufferings and distance from home, seem
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to render it absolutely necefsary; some of the officers talk of [[?? swi ??]] there