Subject:  American Minute - Dec. 19 - 1777, The Freezing Winter at Valley Forge
Date:  Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:10:46 -0600
American Minute with Bill Federer

December 19

Driven into Pennsylvania by the British, the Continental Army set up
camp at Valley Forge, DECEMBER 19, 1777, just 25 miles from British
occupied Philadelphia.

Lacking food and supplies, soldiers died at the rate of twelve per
day. Of 11,000 soldiers, 2,500 died of cold, hunger and disease.

A Committee from Congress reported "feet and legs froze till they
became black, and it was often necessary to amputate them."

Soldiers were there from every State in the new union, some as young
as 12, others as old as 60, and though most were white, some were
Black and American Indians.

Quaker farmer Isaac Potts observed General Washington kneeling in
prayer in the snow. Hessian Major Carl Leopold Baurmeister noted the
only thing that kept the American army from disintegrating was their
"spirit of liberty."

In a letter written to John Banister, Washington recorded:

"To see men without clothes to cover their nakedness, without
blankets to lay on, without shoes, by which their marches might be
traced by the blood from their feet...and at Christmas taking up
their...quarters within a day's march of the enemy...is a mark of
patience and obedience which in my opinion can scarce be paralleled."



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