 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1832 - 446 pages
...complaints of the bad quality of bread in the army, nor was there a moment in which the movements of die army, or of any part of it, were delayed from the...worth, and occasionally addressed him in company, as "hit hoaest friend." In his intercourse with the officers of the army, he was blunt, but never offensive... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1900 - 396 pages
...Washington ordered him to bake six thousand pounds of bread, and said : " Let it be good, ' Old Gentleman,' and let there be enough of it, if I should want myself." Ludwig was a welcome guest with every patriot. His stiff military bearing and his war-scarred features... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1832 - 862 pages
...delayed from the want of that necessary article of food. After the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, lie baked six thousand pounds of bread for his army by...addressed him in company, as " his honest friend." In his intercourse with the officers of the army, he was blunt, but never offensive in his manners.... | |
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old gentleman," (the epithet which the general most commonly gave him, ) " and let there be enough of it, if I should want myself." He often dined with the Commander in chief in large companies, and was always treated by him upon such occasions, with... 