Having no authority whatever to do so, [George Washington] offered a bounty of ten dollars for all who would stay another six months after their enlistments expired that day – a considerable sum for men whose pay was six dollars a month.
“I feel the inconvenience of this advance.” Washington would later tell Congress. “But what was to be done?” To Robert Morris he said more bluntly, “I thought it no time to stand on trifles.”
1776. Simon & Schuster, 2005. p.285
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