Letter To Thomas Paine's Army In Valley Forge

The familiar sound of wheezing fills my ears. Exactly then I know a letter will be sent to a praying family whose hopes will fade into merely a memory and in the morning we will be burying one of our men, who never will get to see his children grow up in a land free from the tyranny of Britain. Every night I went to sleep there was the fear that I might not be able to move in the morning or even wake up. While “the British were comfortably quartered” the Americans were struggling to get by (Roden 141). Recently “General Washington has had trouble keeping his army intact in Valley Forge” (Roden 141). Valley Forge is the camp where thousands of americans were rapidly losing hope in the battle for independence. In the thousand of faces gathered most wore the bitter expression of defeat and fatigue, I happened to be one of those very soldiers. The amount of death, the lack of supplies, and housing conditions are far beyond horrible. I miss my family and my enlistment is almost up. I am not sure if I even want to I renew my promise to the army. To go …show more content…
Like Thomas Paine as well as myself ,they were fed up with tyranny of Britain. Thomas Paine described this unjust tyranny as a “hell that is not easily conquered” (153). However that very tyranny has forced an army to be formed to fight for independence. Those men have had their lives taken in the safety of their own barracks. Meanwhile the looming threat from the British presses on. At the same time, half of our men are being slaughtered by the illness and fatigue that has slowly made it’s way through the camp. With so many reasons to leave I don’t understand how anyone can stay hopeful for victory In the end our hope has turn sour and the driving pace for the fight for independence has subsided to a crawl. The melancholy tune of death and defeat has lulled me into a sleep that is hopeless to fight against to wake