East Barracks, Officer's Family Quarters

The rooms inside the fort hold many interesting objects and stories.

National Park Service

As mentioned earlier, officers often had a hard time maintaining their proper high-ranking lifestyle. This situation only got worse as the war progressed. Many officers bankrupted their personal fortunes by not only providing for themselves, but for their men as well when supplies were lacking, which was all of the time. Faced with mounting debts and receiving little in the way of their regular pay, many officers were reduced to living at the same level or worse than the men they commanded. This may have been the reason that Capt. Moody of the artillery had his wife and teenage daughter here with him in 1780. With no other means to support his family, they would have had to join him at the fort.