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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."

"You will see by some of my former letters, that, in con. sequence of your orders, I had taken measures, to provide such articles of clothing, as were nesfsary to complete that troops with their winter clothing. Mrfs. Banks and Company have furnished most of the articles we shall want, and will provide the rest. Mr. Hamilton, the clothier, had instructions to contract with such as would supply on the best terms, notwithstanding this agreement, but none offer their goods equally reasonble and yet I think they are high; however, the demand among the planters is so great, that they would need a ready sale among them, and at an advanced ? . Under the circumstances, contracts cannot be made on the best terms. The soldiers' clothing will amount to about fifty thousand dollars. I have advanced to the officers two months pay, by drawing bills on the Finances, which they will negotiate for clothing or other things, as their necsfsities may urge.

"This will swell our drafts, but the peculiar situation of the officers, their long sufferings and distance from home, seem to render it absolutely necefsary; some of the officers talk of sending there