Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington’s Army During the American Revolution
Trenton Historical Society and Trenton Masonic Temple co-host Patriots Week talk on acclaimed book
Thursday, December 26, 4:00 pm
Masonic Temple
100 Barrack Street
The suffering of Washington’s army at Valley Forge is one of the enduring images of the Revolutionary War. Military historian Steven Elliott has gone beyond that in his acclaimed study, Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington’s Army During the American Revolution. Reviewers have described the book as “strikingly new” and an “essential read for anyone studying the Revolutionary War.”
As part of Patriots Week, the Trenton Historical Society and Trenton Masonic Temple will co-host a free illustrated talk by Dr. Elliott on Thursday, December 26, 2024, at 4 p.m., at the Masonic Temple, 100 Barrack Street, Trenton. The author, a New Jersey native, is a staff historian with the U.S. Army Military History Institute, and a lecturer at Rutgers-Newark. He devotes chapters to each of the winter encampments, including Morristown/Jockey Hollow and Middlebrook.
“With insights from social, military and urban history, Steven Elliott contends that how the army housed its soldiers and camp followers was an integral part of waging war, with profound implications for operations, civil-military affairs, and relations between officers and rank and file. Surviving the Winters is something genuinely new ~ and genuinely important.”
Mark Edward Lender, author and Professor Emeritus of History, Kean University