. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . hat at the end of seven notj^g^ inglorious years high military chiefs were induced toshare a movement perilously close to a general prominent generals of the Continental army tooktheir full share of the now famous agitation known asthe Newburgh Addresses ; Horatio Gates, Henry Knox,and Rufus Putnam, the last reckoned the best engineerofficer in the American army, were among the dis-affected. An anonymous memorial was, in March1783, distribu
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . hat at the end of seven notj^g^ inglorious years high military chiefs were induced toshare a movement perilously close to a general prominent generals of the Continental army tooktheir full share of the now famous agitation known asthe Newburgh Addresses ; Horatio Gates, Henry Knox,and Rufus Putnam, the last reckoned the best engineerofficer in the American army, were among the dis-affected. An anonymous memorial was, in March1783, distributed widely among the commissioned writer spoke of himself as an old soldier of con-siderable rank, but a young His argumentswere expressed in a style that is always good in anyage, for it was clear and pointed. The officers of the ^ Cf. An Essay on American Union: Alexander Hamilton, byF. S. Oliver, p. 109. - The drafter of the address was Major John Armstrong, aide-de-camp to Major-General Gates. Forty years later, in 1823,Armstrong told the story in the United States Magazine. Cf. alsoSparks, Li/e 0/ Washington, i. 392 , A General WASHiNfnoNs Headquartkrs at Nh\vRUR(;H, Ghijsons Pictorutl, 1852. THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 43 army had, he urged, conducted the United States ofAmerica through a doubtful and bloody war, and hadplaced America in the chair of independency. Does your country, he asked, show herself ready toredress your wrongs, cherish your worth, and reward yourservices ; or does she trample on your rights, disdain your cries,and insult your distress? Surely, he urged, if they hadsense enough to discover and spirit sufficient to oppose tyranny,whether it assume the plain coat of republicanism or the splendidrobe of royalty, they should wake up and redress their ownwrongs. Let Congress, he advised, be made clearly tounderstand that the slightest mark of indignity from them willsunder the army and Congress for ever ; say that you willcourt the aus
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