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Author(s):	Nancy K. Loane

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1640123091
Pages:	228	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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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 armys wagons and hundreds of camp women. Following the Drum tells the story of the forgotten women who spent the winter of 177778 with the Continental Army at Valley Forgefrom those on societys 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 armys washers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Other women at the encampment were of higher status: they traveled with George Washingtons 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, Washingtons 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 womens own diary entries and letters to bring these women to life.
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