Joseph Plumb Martin

Not, not a nice one, not a luxurious one, but in fact, let me read a few pieces from a few diaries and memoirs that have come down the ages.

Private Joseph Plumb Martin, uh, quotes, "We engaged in making our huts.

We looked more like an army of ghosts than out-of-door, industrious, honest men.

I had no shoes to my feet, and my clothes were completely torn to rags." Bottom line, the troops were inadequately clothed for these freezing conditions by far.

Rations were poor and soldiers went unpaid.

As Joseph Plumb Martin, a soldier from Connecticut, wrote, they felt they were starving in detail for an ungrateful people who did not care what became of us.

And many other colonists didn't fight for independence.

They fought with the British.