[Footnote 91: Jordon, "Military Hospitals at Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution" in _Penn. Mag._ Vol. XX, p. 137.] [Footnote 92: Lewis, _Orderly Book_, (June 11, 1776) p. 49.] [Footnote 93: Chastellux, _Travels in America_, p. 70.] [Footnote 94: Thacher, _Military Journal_, p. 31.] [Footnote 95: Ibid., p. 112.] [Footnote 96: Jordon, "Continental Hospital Returns, 1777-1780," _Penn. Mag._ Vol. XXIII, p. 38.] [Footnote 97: Chastellux, _Travels in America_, p. 70.] [Footnote 98: Elbert, _Orderly Book_, (Feb., 11, 1778) p. 101.] [Footnote 99: _American Archives_, Ser. V, Vol. III, Col. 1584.] [Footnote 100: Goodale, _British and Colonial Army Surgeon_, p. 10.] [Footnote 101: Dr. Waldo, _Diary_ (Dec. 25, 1777) p. 31.] [Footnote 102: Thacher, _Military Journal_, p. 112.] [Footnote 103: Jordon, "Military Hospitals at Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution" _Penn. Mag._ Vol. XV, p. 137.] [Footnote 104: Jordon, "Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780", _Penn. Mag._ Vol. XXIII, p. 219.] [Footnote 105: Jordon, "Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780". _Penn. Mag._, Vol. XXIII, p. 211.] [Footnote 106: Jordon, "Continental Hospitals Returns, 1777-1780", _Penn. Mag._ Vol. XXIII, p. 216.] [Footnote 107: Ibid., p. 217.] [Footnote 108: Sermon quoted in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Pro. Ser. 1_, Vol. IX, p. 275.] [Footnote 109: Shreve, _Journal_ In _Am. Hist. Mag._, Vol. III, p. 565.] [Footnote 110: _American Archives_, Ser. 5, Vol. I, p. 145.] [Footnote 111: Ford, _Writings of Washington_, Vol. III, p. 447.] [Footnote 112: Ford, _Writings of Washington_, Vol. III, p. 5.] [Footnote 113: Coit, _Orderly Book_, (June 1, 1775.), p. 15.] Chapter IV RECREATION IN CAMP If there must be a certain proportion of work and play in every one's life to make for efficiency, then the soldier of the Revolutionary War was far below normal in the scale of efficiency for recreation in any organized form is found to have been entirely lacking. But before too severe a judgment is placed upon this lack of recreation the conditions the soldier left at home must be studied. Recreation as such had not been a part of his daily routine. It has been estimated that nine-tenths of the people lived in rural districts leaving only one-tenth for the cities,[114] an estimate which no doubt is true. The people had never thought of the problems of bad housing, congestion, or recreation. They had had the whole of nature for their home and the whole of the frontier to wrestle with. Speaking of the people a generation or two later, Dr. F. L. Paxson says in _The Rise of Sport_, "The fathers of this generation had been sober lot unable to bend without breaking, living a life of rigid and puritanical decorum interspersed perhaps with disease and drunkedness, but unenlivened for most of them by spontaneous play."[115]