In this excerpt from her journal dated February 1779, Friederike Charlotte Louise Riedesel describes her experience traveling to the Albemarle Barracks with the Convention Army, a group of British and German soldiers and their families captured at the Battles of Saratoga. As the wife of German general Friedrich Riedesel, Friederike Charlotte Louise Riedesel’s experiences reflect both the difficulty of the march and the privileges extended to officers’ families.
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