Other shortages mirrored those plaguing the British. “We have suffered prodigiously for want of wood,” Greene added. “We have burnt up all the fences and cut down all the trees for a mile around the camp.” The army would burn eight thousand cords in six months, and on particularly cold days, the firewood demand equaled the timber from a four-acre woodlot. Despite efforts by the Committee on Wood in Watertown to organize cutting expeditions, a number of regiments were forced to eat their provisions raw, and many soldiers shivered in their sleep. While 120 barracks were under construction in
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