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event of a battle who can tell what
necessary might grow to in a single day.
They would want them faster than you could
make — But only a small portion of an Army
constantly fighting on New England troops
N.Y., Penn., Ohio, Ind., & Mass. have sent
hundreds of thousands, and I greatly fear that
these States lack the intelligent active enterprising
organizations at home which do elsewhere in
other English circles. I admit I desire news
of this in their Camp. I feel while passing through
them that they could be better supplied without
danger of overrunning our resources. Still it
is said that our army is supplied — it is also
said also, upon the same authority that we "need
no nurses," either male or female, and none
are admitted. I wrote on her way that
you had been with one. In compliance with
a request of my sister in the city I went to
her house and found there a young Englishman
a brother of one of their domestics. He lived in
Catharina