Editors’ note: This excerpt is adapted from Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution, by Jack D. Warren, Jr., available now from Lyons Press.
From its winter quarters in Morristown, New Jersey, George Washington’s army kept watch over the British army in New York City. The character of the war was changing, and with it the way Washington understood the men under his command. The martial enthusiasm that had led thousands of young men to enlist in the Continental Army and state regiments in the first year of the war was gone. Many of the men were gone, too—killed, grievously wounded, or captured.
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