On Dec. 23, 1777 there were "2,873 men in camp unfit for duty" here "because they are barefooted and otherwise naked"
[PAR] In the years just before the Revolutionary War, volunteers were organized into ... 
General George Washington camped there in the terrible winter of 1777 and ... 
On December 23, 1777, Washington wrote "We have this day no less than 2,873 
men in camp unfit for duty because they are barefooted and otherwise naked".