From the Revolutionary War Journal of Captain Joseph Bloomfield:

Wednesday the 8th. of May 1776. Marched my Company by 6 O'Clock this Morning from Ten Eyck's. & on the Road overtook the division sent on [------------] & the whole arrived at Albany by 12 O'Clock after marching 15 miles through absolute barren Country with Mud & Sand over our Ancles & it raining hard all the time so that we were all wet to the skin & found no Accomodations was provided for my Men owing to upwards of 2000 Troops & Indians (on a Treaty) being in Town. My Men badly provided for the whole Company oblidged to lay in a Small Room. Lodged myself aboard the sloop Lilly which arrived in Town this Morning. I now begin to feel more & more the Vicissitudes [of] a Soldier's Life, from home & and no Friends.

Saturday. 27. [July, 1776]. Necessity drove me to order a Court-Martial today wh. made the following report.

At a Regimental Court-Martial held by order of Capt. Bloomfield at the German-Flatts July 7th. 1776 Capt. Garret Veadder President, Lieut. Wm. Gifford, Pendleton, Cannon & Elmer members.

Michael Reynolds of Bloomfield's Company accused of Lodging out of Camp in disobedience of orders, Nonattendance at Roll-Call this morning & attempting to leave the Company without leave. (after mentioning the Evidence) The Court Martial considering the above crimes do sentence him, to be led to the post stripped & tyed thereto for the space of a quarter of an hour & afterwards dismissed to his duty with the stoppage of One Week's pay from his wages.

GERRIT S. VEEDER
Presdt. & Capn.

. . . At the Roll-Call in the Evening the Companies were drawn round the Adjutant's Daughter (the Whipping-Post so called), the Prisoner tyed up & was exhorted by our Chaplain for his base Conduct & the Soldiery warned against bringing themselves to such a shamefull Punishment. I also spoke to my Company & the Prisoner, told them it gave me a great deal of Pain to see One of their Brother-Soldiers punished; but, at the same time, when I reflected He was not originally Inlisted with me but taken up as a Deserter from the 2[d.] Pennsilvania Battn., it was some alleviation of my anxiety &c. &c. &c. After Prayers the Prisoner was released & Expressing himself in a haughty manner that He was punished, through spite, I ordered him immediately to be again Confined in the Guard-house. . . .

April 4th. [1777] After Visiting my Father & Friends in Elizth.Town I again sett out for Cohansie, where I met my old Company the 4th of April. Payed them all their wages & back-arrearages out of my own Pocket, the Paymaster not haveing Yet drawn their Pay, treated them handsomely and dismissed them to their own Homes, haveing commanded them as their Captain near fifteen Months as they all expressed themselves, much to their satisfaction haveing proved myself their Father Friend & good Officer.

From the Diary of Jeremiah Greenman:

January, 1779 Warrin

F 1 to S 31. Continuing in Warrin, Nothing very Remarkable / we hear ones [once] in a great wile from the weston Army / we hear thay are in great Confusion thare Concerning ye pay, being so Depreciated, times very dull indeed / we hear no stur of the enemy / Thay seem very still / hear that Genl. Washington is gone to the Congress to try to get the Solders pay made up to them . . . .

January 1780

. . . M 17. this morn we marcht to Conaticut farms where we made a small halt and took out our Invalids, & proceeded on towards Camp as far as Spring-field where we made a small halt after which we came to Chatham where we drew Provisions & pushd on for Camp where we arrived at half after 6,o'Clock / we found that our men had privately plundered the Inhabitance & order was given out for Sival [civil] and Militia officers to take up every person that offered any articles for Sail ---

. . . T 18 to F 28. Continued in Camp near morristown in which Time we kep out Guards as usal, & received orders to take up all Soldiers after Retreat beating and if they could not precure a proper pass was to receive one hundred Stripes on their Naked Back and if surpsected to have been a plundering the Inhabitance they was to receive from one hundred to 500 Lashes on ther back at the Descretion of the officers Commanding the Guards.