Valley Forge Letter

My dearest sister Isabella,

The winter has been very cold and tough we've only been given fire cakes grilled on the grittle to eat along with water. We share a 16x4 foot long and walls 61/2 feet talll and a stone fire place and a cloth door with 12 men, the floors are dirt it's cold, damp and a very unhealthy place to sleep in. For a year we've been with Washington and runing away it seems like every living second along with being shot at. I tell you this because you are my on sister and I trust that you won't tell ma that things are going poorly. I know this would break her heart since the bad news of pa's death earlier in the war.

The whole time fighting we've only won one battle and that was at trenton crossing the delware river. I hate being in the war and all i want to do is come home to take care of you and ma. I hope that you have found a decent man that both pa and i would both like. Many men at Valley Forge have gotten sick from drink from the same stream that the soliders have gone to the bathroom in. Those of us who haven't gotten sick have been made to have vaccines. Genereal Nathanael Green is now the quartermaster and things are looking up for the war we are being taught new things to help us win more battles.

Isabella I think i'm going to try and stick it out for another 6 months becaue I hate the Britians so much that we're being taught the skills by Baron von Steuben a German whose a profesional solider he looks funny and can't speak english but we are learning so many skills that are need to kill the Britian's and rub it in their faces. I'm doing this only for myself, but for you and everyone at home and the fallen soliders that felt the same way I do. with all my love,

Noah