![]() ![]() While Abigail’s first diary takes place on the homestead in Valley Forge, witnessing to– but not necessarily participating in– the soldiers’ circumstances, the sequel is very much an ‘on-the-road’ story, and this time Abigail is suffering the conditions of the soldiers first-hand. The winter blizzards as well as the summer’s heat are cruel and fatal for the soldiers and their families, and the severe absence of food, wages, and clothing caused not only much illness but mutiny among the Patriots. It is quite a new and nomadic lifestyle for these women and children, never knowing where they will be ordered to next, their lives constantly at risk, having to be prepared to pack and leave at any moment’s notice. However, almost immediately after his parting, the Stewarts’ house burns down, causing the family, now with no place to go, to march behind the soldiers and camp near them. As we learn in the opening pages, Abigail’s father, the cobbler, has joined the Patriot army and leaves for war. The story continues not long after Abigail’s first diary ends, still in the middle of the Revolutionary War. ![]() ![]() “Cannons at Dawn” is the second diary of “The Winter of the Red Snow”‘s Abigail Stewart, and the first sequel in the “Dear America” series. ![]()
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