Extract of a Letter from an British Officer of the Sixty-Fourth Regiment, in York Island, to His Friend in London, Dated October 30, 1776. "The Rebel army are in so wretched a condition as to clothing and accoutrements, that I believe no nation every saw such a set of tatterdemalions. There are few coats among them but what are out at elbows, and in a whole regiment there is scarce a pair of breetches. Judge then how they must be pinched by a winter campaign. We, who are warmly clothed and well equipped, already feel it severely; for it is even now much colder than I have ever felt it in England." American Archives 5, Vol. 2, column 1293-1294