L’Infantery Camp, 18th August, 1779.
Dear Colonel:
The officers of the two A Battalions of l’Infantery, which I actually
command, have applied to me for ceasing to run over those craggy
mountains barefooted, and beg that I would write to head quarters to
have an order from his Excellency to get one pair of shoes for each;
the shoes they hint to are at New Windsor, and their intention is to
pay for.
Do not be so greedy for shoes as for my blanket, and think that the
most urgent necessity has determined their application; they are quite
barefooted.
I am very respectfully, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
L. Fleury.
N. B. As his Excellency could form a very advantageous idea of our
being lucky in shoes by the appearance of the officers who dined
to-day at head quarters, and were not quite without, I beg you would
observe to him, if necessary, that each company had furnished a shoe
for their dressing.
Camp l’Infantery, 19th August, 1779.
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