Student+21+8th

Dear Family, I am doing well. We just won our first war at Trenton and I will not be home for Christmas today. What we did is that we snuck through the icey, cold river at night. All the people were asleep so they couldn't hear us. They all were hard asleep from partying all night on Christmas day. Once we got to the other side of the river, we all split around town and went inside the houses of people. Then we would scare the people. Some we shot and some just to scare. Because no know was up and ready for us we easily won the victory at Trenton. Because of our win at Trenton, we have won lots of ammunition, cannons and supplies like food and clothing. The weather has been very scary so as a present, I was wondering if you would send me blankets, hats, gloves, and shoes. I am sorry but I will not be home soon. We will still be going on with this war and hopefully be more victorious. No one has found out my identity of me being a female yet. I do not think think that they will. I have met a few other females on the way so we have become very good friends. About a weeks ago I got shot in the leg by my knee. I have been in a tent with the nurses since. I sleep on a cot. I think it is made of straw and cloth. Atleast that is what it feels like. Well sleeping on that cot, I do NOT sleep well at all. I hear the howling at night from the cyotes, and the wind chill and the snow is hard to sleep with. The nurses luckily did not find out that i was a female when i got hurt. I am fine from the shot but my leg does still hurt. Soon i am going to go back to my normal sleeping arrangement. We convinced some of our generals to let us tent out together. Then i will be back to be sleeping on the snow, my clothing, and any other materials I can find that will help keep me warm. Eating is scarce. We have been running low on food so what i eat is anything that I can basically find. We got some food from our victory. We got breads, grains, and other foods. What I wear for a uniform is a frock and brogans. Only a few of us have regular uniforms. Barely any though. Our uniforms help us blend in well to the environment. The weapons that we use is shotguns, rifles, cannons that we got from our victory at Trenton, and knives. The cannons help out SO tremendously. We can be safe and about 300 or more feet away from all the action and the "BOOM!" out comes a deadly cannon ball that will kill at least 10 people or more.We also got a lot of our guns and rifles from the people at Trenton. How we train for the war is we go through a process of shooting at targets, crawling under tight spaces, and I like to exercise. So far, I have been in the battle of Saratoga and the battle in Trenton. We will be going onto other battles before I come home. The living conditions are hard. First, I have to keep my secret of being a female and hearing some of the things that people say makes me want to slap them. It's hard not to speak up. Second, it's hard living with barely any food. It is so cold and I may be afraid of dying from hypothermia or any of the diseases that i may catch. And having the bullet being shot into my leg, I have lost a fair amount of blood and any of the diseases that are being spread, I could easily catch through my leg. And last, I have to be afraid of getting shot again and not surviving through it.Don't worry that I will die anytime soon because of the good types of attacks we have now. Write back soon(please send the supplies) Brooke .W.