Student+17+3rd

Dear faimly, I have inlisted into the Colonial army to serve my country for a year.We sleep in tent on top of a hard cold coat. We eat fish we catch out of a pond and hunt deer and any thing we can eat but soon witer will come and we will move into vally forge for the winter and My uniform is very thin and at nights it is very cold the weopen I use is the musket that I brought from home and we use cannons and we use melted down metal into musket balls.All of the last engagements we have lost and we are lossing men to diseses,war and some dont renlist becuse were losing the training is bad we have no idea what where doing. we have the least and the worst of everything. Living conditions are bad, little warm clothes are so thin,worn out and dirty we are running out of everthing like food. The most important reson is all of use are sick the King making all these expensive taxes so i would gladly die for my country over and over to stop these taxes.

Sinserly, Dustin