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as the commander of the army at newburgh without washington s consent. the congress simply appointed him and sent him to newburgh telling general washington, you may use him as you please. so general gates arrived to be the actual commander of the army. washington, of course, commander in chief. but gates being the general in charge at the encampment. the men in the encampment, of course, bored, not much to do. about 7,000 soldiers. there they began to build their huts at a place called new windsor. the new windsor encampment. they built about 700 wooden huts, neatly laid out for the winter encampment. and there they took up their quarters. what do you do with an army, this kind of situation? you drill and drill and then you drill some more, you build more huts, you build roads, you have to keep them busy but it wasn t working very well. so chaplain evans decided, let us build a temple of virtue. so in the middle of this encampment the soldiers went to work to build a t ....

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