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Dear mama and pops, I am having a very hard time as a British Soldier during the Revolutionary War. We, had one out very first War against Trenton, i will not be able to go home for Christmas. Nobody has found out that i am a girl yet. I have a small wound on my leg, it isn't infected .yet. i will be okay because i can walk and isn't bugging me. I don't have much things to eat.I am hungry, i haven't had anything to eat in a couple of hours. Were tiring to save some food so we have it for more wars that we have yet to face. I have a uniform that is blue with a red slash. We have been practicing things to do if we run into cold weather, like Valley Forge.Our uniforms are not that things that are warm.They have very little heating because we are poor. We had just noticed that the soldier that was killed at the battle of Trenton, was a girl. I am very surprised that they haven't found out i was a girl, because they are treating me for my wound. I have a musket for my weapon that i use.It had killed three people in the first five minutes. It was pretty cool. I have a lot of friends, i like everyone that is on my part of the war. The training is really hard because, we don't have many things that we can eat and don't have good things that are good tasting too drink. I am having a hard doing that training. it is a lot of work, and it is hard to do in the cold weather.One of the training sessions is that we set up things to be dummies and we start trying to kill people. I am not having troubles with that session, the sessions i am having trouble with are, when you have dummies that move and have team mates in there you may get them killed.What the trainer is doing is putting the people with bad wounds out there and saying if they get shout they will just die anyways with a bad wound.There weren't many engagements at this point. The only people we have battled so far is Trenton and we won! this is a hard time for me, because I miss you guys dearly and we aren't that rich here and cant afford anything.It really stinks. The living conditions are pretty bad. We do not have the best tents, as i said before we are poor. We don't have much food, things to drink, our things for wounds.We have had many people getting hurt, two of my best friends had died at our victory of Trenton by a cannon fired buy the last guy that was standing, for Trenton. We don't have good things to sleep on and we haven't had the best weather here. The last time in Vally Forge it was very brutal, this isn't anything like that, but it is very close.Its cool outside and we don't have many things that are to keep us warm threw these cold winter times.Well, i greatly miss you guys, and hopefully i will be able to see you sometime after Christmas scene i wont be arriving Christmas day, due to weather conditions and training. It is a lot of work to make sure that everyone is equipt right for going in this nasty weather. Well, i don't enjoy all this fight, and moving from place to place it is terrible.I want to be able to see you and father on Christmas morning but i am not ready for out next fight. I need to get a lot of progress done to be able to see you.Well it is a very hard life for me too be able to not stay in one place.When we just got done fighting Trenton, we found a place to stay for the night, and we were attacked. But, thank gosh that we were ready for them to come see we just got done at war. Well, they didn't get far in that because we had everything ready and nothing was in a place to be taking. Well, I better get to my training. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Love you mama and pops Love, Julia K. Hover