It was in a wilderness which abounded with game; both deer and bear frequently ran into the very camps; and venison was a common food.
[Footnote: Bradley MSS.

The journal and letters of Captain Daniel Bradley; shown me by the courtesy of his descendants, Mr.Daniel B.
Bradley of Southport, Conn., and Mr.Arthur W.Bradley of Cincinnati, Ohio.] On October 13th a halt was made to build another little fort, christened in honor of Jefferson.

There were further delays, caused by the wretched management of the commissariat department, and the march was not resumed until the 24th, the numerous sick being left in Fort Jefferson.

Then the army once more stumbled northward through the wilderness.

The regulars, though mostly raw recruits, had been reduced to some kind of discipline; but the six months' levies were almost worse than the militia.