Feeding Washington's Army with Ricardo A. Herrera
Episode description
From the dark and cold winter encampment of Valley Forge, Washington launched one of the War's riskiest campaigns: to feed and clothe his army, and prevent its soldiers from starving, dispersing, or deserting. Ricardo A. Herrera, Visiting Professor of History at the Army War College, tells us about his book, Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778. We hear about the campaigns of Nathanael Greene, Anthony Wayne, and Henry Lee to gather cattle, sheep, and wheat, and John Barry's attacks on the Jersey marshlands to distract the British Navy. Rick Herrera is an award-winning historian, a former Armor and ?Cavalry officer in the U.S. Army, and author of For Liberty and the Republic, is an intellectual history of the Army's soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War.