He sits with the other redcoats in a warm tavern and enjoys a soup

It's already the dead of winter and just before Christmas...which is why most people are singing, laughing and of course drinking...some people even make fun of the Continental Army and seem to have already looked too deeply into the glass

However, Ensign Backer looks like a shy schoolboy himself and stays quietly in the background...but he looks up when you enter the tavern...