Neutrals, especially the Dutch in the West Indies, sold guns to the Americans, and France was a chief source of supply during long periods when the British lost the command of the sea.

There was always difficulty about equipping cavalry, especially in the North.

The Virginian was at home on horseback, and in the farther South bands of cavalry did service during the later years of the war, but many of the fighting riders of today might tomorrow be guiding their horses peacefully behind the plough.
The pay of the soldiers remained to Washington a baffling problem.

When the war ended their pay was still heavily in arrears.

The States were timid about imposing taxation and few if any paid promptly the levies made upon them.