- unitid
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{"value"=>"276445", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 4190", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Feb. 17, 1778", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1778-02-17"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A.L.S. 2 pp. and 1 leaf with the address and endorsement. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"An American army in the bosom of America is about to disband for want of something to eat; three times the troops have been on the point of disbanding; the neighboring country has been laid under contribution to no purpose; the sly broad-brims are assiduous in undermining their resources; when the Americans are starved from a piece of ground it smiles with abundance for Howe; desertion prevails in the British Army; with their own the wonder is that any stay, having neither clothes, food, wood nor straw; asks for a return of the officers in Gansevoort, Van Schaick's and Dubois's regiments with information as to their relative merits; entreats him to raise a tax of at least half a million dollars; only by taxation can the war be ended."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Morris, Gouverneur (Camp Valley Forge)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1778
- date_inclusive_end
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1778
- keydate
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1778-02-17
- date_start
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1778-02-17
- date_end
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1778-02-17