Valley Forge was a camp where lots of soldiers got sick and died. I am not going to stay at Valley Forge because lots of soldiers got sick and died from the cold weather, bad ventilation, and starvation. Estimates of Illness and Deaths at Valley Forge (Doc A), explains that December-June there were about 1,800 to 2,500 deaths at Valley Forge. In December there were about 2,898 illnesses and on February 1, 1778 there were estimated 3,989 illnesses. According to the Diary of Dr. Waldo (Doc C), there was poor food, hard lodging, cold weather, fatigue, nasty clothes, nasty cookery, vomits half the time, and horrible ventilation. Soldiers have bare feet, worn out shoes, legs nearly naked from tattered remains of an only pair of stockings. The
