Shortages of Food at Jockey Hollow
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12/7/2008
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Shortages of food and other provisions also posed a constant challenge for the army at Morristown. Fresh meat was usually unavailable, and shortages of flour often made bread scarce. Washington noted that the soldiers sometimes went �5 or Six days together without bread, at other times as many days without meat, and once or twice two or three days without either.� According to some sources, soldiers were so desperate for food that they ate tree bark, leather from old shoes, or even dogs, a situation made worse by the fact that Morristown was located amidst numerous local farms. Despite their proximity to the farmland, however, drought had created shortages in the harvest seasons before, and farmers were often unwilling to give up their crops to feed soldiers.
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Interior of Soldiers Huts at Jockey Hollow, Washington's Troops at Jockey Hollow, Winter at Jockey Hollow, Soldiers Huts, Pennsylvania Regiments, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morristown National Historical Park, National Park Service, NPS, The Wick Farm, The American Revolution, American Histor, History, The Continental Army, George Washington, New Jersey Register of Historic Places, U.S. Historic District Contributing Property, The Skylands, Winter in the Skylines, NJ, Skylands, New Jersey Skylands, Lakeland, New Jersey, Morris County, Jersey, The Garden State
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