It was a whole new twist on the story of Valley Forge. Sure, it was winter and some of the guys didn’t have suitable clothes. Good food was hard to come by but soldiers didn’t freeze to death or starve. They built their own huts and foraged for food in the neighboring hillsides, farms and communities. Life was not really any harder than the previous winters but the soldiers were tiring of the hardship and the Officers knew they had to paint a bleak picture to get what they needed if they were to keep the army together. That bleak story of downtrodden men in unbelievably bleak conditions is what made the history books.
They try to focus on the other story here. The story of this as the birthplace of the disciplined, organized, battle ready army that emerged from the muddy fields of Valley Forge.
It makes we think I ought to read some more history books to get the straight story.