Have You Been A Soldier At Valley Forge Analysis

This DBQ was about the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary war. The Patriot side of the revolution was was not going so good in the first two years of the war. Some of the men were deserting General Washington and going home because they believed that there was no point of living in miserable conditions when there was little hope of winning the war. General Washington decided to take the troops that he did have left to build a camp at a place called Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. The soldiers would later find out that the conditions at Valley Forge would be very bad and very difficult. As this DBQ provided evidence about Valley Forge it continued to ask the question-”Had you been a soldier at Valley Forge, would you have quit?”(Background Essay)

There was a lot of sickness at Valley Forge, and where there is a lot of sickness there is a …show more content…
Many of them had torn shoes and some of them did not have shoes at all! The soldiers needed the shoes because there was snow on the ground. Some soldiers got frostbite on their feet or on other parts of their bodies. General Washington tried to convince the Congressional Committee to give the soldiers the equipment that they needed. This would be one of the lesser concerns to me if I was a soldier at Valley forge. I would stay at Valley Forge if this was the only problem.

There were soldiers who complained a lot about the terrible conditions in Valley Forge. One doctor from Valley Forge even wrote diary entries about what went on there.(Document C) He wrote about how there was smoke every where and this made it hard to breath and he also talked about how everything was disgusting there. He said he was scared he might freeze or starve to death and he said that he was vomiting half the time. After hearing all of the terrible things that happened at Valley Forge I definitely would not have stayed