Hallowed Ground: Morristown, New Jersey

Although the 1777–78 winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pa., is firmly fixed in Americans’ collective memory, the situation at Morristown two years later was far bleaker. The Army’s inexperience with winter encampments, hut construction and sanitation certainly resulted in a higher death toll at Valley Forge (1,859 men vs. 86 at Morristown), the nadir of …

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