DBQ Essay: How I Showed Up At Valley Forging

“Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.” -Unknown, Washington’s troops showed up at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. The troops built huts that had no ventilation, but they were large enough for 12 men to sleep together on the muddy, straw covered floor. The men would have to stay in these huts for the next 6 months not knowing what they were going to have to endure. If you had to be at Valley Forge, would you have abandoned your men? I’m going to re-enlist despite the fact that there are no good supplies like clothes, sickness is spreading due to freezing cold weather and fatigue is being caused by the lack of food.
Despite the absence of clothes that actually work, I will not abandon my men when they need me most. In the engraving ( document B) …show more content…
The weather is growing cold and it will scare many men away but others are here to fight for their freedom and for the freedom of others. According to the chart in document A illness is spreading during this winter season and washington’s troop will lose about “49%” men and they will be be needing as much support as possible. They are not going to desert their crew just when things start going south. They are sick of being treated badly, So why not stay and fight the cold and the british.The troops are weary and want food, but they will not quit because they deserve to be free. The men will fight for their country even if it means losing a lot of their soldiers.According to the journal entries in document C men would be calling out for food they were so hungry and the men were “...discontented- and out of humour.”. The “... melancholy sound…(Document C)” would echo back to the campsite of men’s hunger made it hard for soldiers to want to re-enlist. The men were ready to give up, but they were willing to fight through everything for their