... • time, but very cold and frosty at night. don’t get half of what is represented by the papers. I have had ray clothes and boots on since last November, and, to tell the truth, every soldier, oflicers and all, are creeping with vermin. I have had no shirt ...

... men; one at Exeter, for 2,453 men; one at Gloucester, for 3,895 men ; one at Colchester, for 3,322; and one at Shorncliff, Kent, for 3,313 men. These encampments will be appropriated principally to the militia that cannot be accommodated in barracks. ...