for resources; but we want the means of drawing them forth.” The new organization was to consist of fifty regiments of foot, four of artillery, and other bodies of mounted men, including in all, thirty-six thousand men, fairly apportioned among the States. But not more than half that number were ever in the field at one time, and the full complement never was recruited. The prejudice against a regular army of any size was bitter; and Hildreth states the matter very truthfully when he says, that “Congress, led by Samuel Adams, was very jealous of military power, and of everything which tended to give a permanent character to the army.” Mr. Adams was sound in principle, for he not only realized that the Colonies had suffered through the employment of the British army to enforce oppressive and unconstitutional laws, but equally well knew that a larger army than the State needed for its protection against invasion and the preservation of the peace, was inimical to true liberty. Money was still scarce. A specie tax of six millions was imposed, and the sixth annual campaign of the war drew near its close. John Trumbull, Jr., became Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, _vice_ Robert H. Harrison who became Chief Justice of Maryland; and Colonel Hand became Adjutant-General, _vice_ Scammon, resigned. Morgan was promoted, and with General Steuben and Harry Lee’s horse, was ordered to the Southern Department, accompanied by Kosciusko as engineer, _vice_ Du Portail, captured at Charleston. On the twenty-eighth of November, Washington designated the winter quarters for the army, establishing his own at New Windsor. The Pennsylvania Line were near Morristown; the Jersey line, at Pompton; the Maryland horse, at Lancaster, Penn.; Sheldon’s horse, at Colchester, Conn., and the New York regiments at Fort Schuyler, Saratoga, Albany, Schenectady, and other exposed Northern posts. This distribution of troops, from time to time indicated, enables the reader to understand how a wise disposition of the army, when active operations were practically suspended, equally enabled Washington to resume active service upon the shortest notice.