A portion of a letter George Washington wrote to Governors of five states on December 16, 1779
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"The Situation of the Army, with respect to supplies, is beyond description alarming. It has been five or six weeks past on half allowances, and we have not more than three days bread at the third allowance on hand, nor anywhere within reach. When this is exhausted we must depend on the precarious gleanings of the neighboring country.
Our magazines are absolutely empty everywhere and our commissaries are entirely destitute of money or credit to replenish them. We have never experienced a like extremity at any period of the war. . . . Unless some extraordinary and immediate exertions are made by the States, from which we draw our supplies, there is every appearance that the army will infallibly disband in a fortnight."
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