The correct answer is, a soldier in the Continental Army might consider deserting because there was not enough food to nourish the troops. They lacked supplies.
There are other reasons on why a Continental Army soldier might consider deserting, such as the extremely harsh conditions in the battlefield, or the lack of appropriate clothes to warm them up in the cold weather, they could be missing their families, and the most obvious, the risk of death. But many soldiers decided that to fight in the war was the most important thing to get their Independence from England.
