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I am a colonial soldier during the revolutionary war. Dear family, I have been sleeping in the coldness under a tent in the middle of the woods for the last few months. It has been verry cold and many have gotten sick and died. We are sleeping with one pillow and a very light blanket. We have packed alott of food but we Have already ran out, so we have to kill animals and fish for food as we travel. I have eaten some of the leather off my boots so i didnt starve to death. The other day all of the soldiers had to walk with an empty stomach we couldnt find any food. My uniform is a old blue coat that is now a blood stinted dull a dull gray, and some pants that have holes in them. The only things that we have for weapons are a sword that hangs on my side, a musket, and a long gun that takes a while to load. I have had a very minimal amount of traning one of the onley reasons i know how to load my gun is because i used it for pretection at home. Some of the battles that i have fought or witnessed are a couple of us fired at some red coats that were just wondering arround the trails through the woods. Then the one big thing that i survived was valley frge it was one of the coldest places i have ever been in, the snow was shin deep and many got froas bit, sick or deid. Another battle was the battle of Saratoga. living conditions were terrible, my tent is a verry small one and it has to fit five people in it. Some of the others have to nock down trees and build some small huts to lay under and keep away some of the wind and coldness. Some of the people had no cover at all, witch left people dead and some very weak and sick. I wish I could just come back home. sincerely, alex