Author: Samuel Stelle SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Winter at Morristown, 1779-1780
Author: Samuel Stelle SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Forgotten Winter
Author: Perry M. GoldmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Morristown (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Winter Encampments of the Revolution
Author: Elbert CoxPublisher:
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Category : Morristown (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Morristown, a Crucible of the American Revolution
Author: Bruce W. StewartPublisher:
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Category : Morristown (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Traces the events of the Revolution that took place in and around Morristown, N.J., with emphasis on the encampment during the severe 1779-1780 winter.
Morristown
Author: William HazelgrovePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493063456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the fall of 1779 George Washington took his 10,000 men into winter camp at Morristown, New Jersey after six long years of fighting. It would be a brutal winter of suffering, depression, starvation, betrayal, mutiny, treason and an attempt to kidnap George Washington by the British. By the spring only 8,000 men would be left in Morristown with less than two thirds fit for service. Books have cemented Valley Forge as one with Omaha Beach, the Death March of Bataan, and Washington crossing the Delaware. But the winter of Valley Forge was mild in comparison to other winters. Temperatures did not plummet to unheard levels and snowfall was normal. And the men were not starving on the scale that would later follow at Morristown. The winter of 1779 to 1780 was the worst in a century and would mark Washington’s darkest hour where he contemplated the army coming apart from lack of food and, money, six years of war, desertions, mutiny, the threat of a devastating attack by the British, and incredibly, a plot to kidnap him. And yet Morristown would mark a turning point. After a long winter of suffering, he was joined by Lafayette in May who promised Washington a second fleet of French support, leading to the final defeat of the British in 1783.
From Farming Village to Log Hut City
Author: Dedication of the Morristown National Historical Park
Author: Harold LeClair IckesPublisher:
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Category : Morristown National Historical Park (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Morristown 1780
Author: Emory McClintockPublisher: Digital Antiquaria
ISBN: 1580574904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A comprehensive review locating the various brigade encampments during "The Hard Winter" of 1779-80 at Morristown, New Jersey. In addition, the author has studied the roads which were in use at the time, and describes their strategic importance.
Following the Drum
Author: Nancy K. LoanePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640123954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site of their winter encampment. The soldiers' arrival was followed by the army's wagons and hundreds of camp women. Following the Drum tells the story of the forgotten women who spent the winter of 1777-78 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge--from those on society's lowest rungs to ladies on the upper echelons. Impoverished and clinging to the edge of survival, many camp women were soldiers' wives who worked as the army's washers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Other women at the encampment were of higher status: they traveled with George Washington's entourage when the army headquarters shifted locations and served the general as valued cooks, laundresses, or housekeepers. There were also the ladies at Valley Forge who were not subject to the harsh conditions of camp life and came and went as they and their husbands, Washington's generals and military advisers, saw fit. Nancy K. Loane uses sources such as issued military orders, pension depositions after the war, soldiers' descriptions, and some of the women's own diary entries and letters to bring these women to life.
Jockey Hollow
Author: Clyde PottsPublisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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