. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . services. Owing to his recommendation he was made InspectorGeneral. This branch of the service now received the attention it deserved,and discipline, before irregular, or practised only under particular leaders, wasintroduced into every portion. All the arrangements, even to the minutest,were planned and perfected by Steuben, and the vast machinery of our armybegan to move in harmony and order. He had one company which he drilledto the highest point of discipline, as a mode
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . services. Owing to his recommendation he was made InspectorGeneral. This branch of the service now received the attention it deserved,and discipline, before irregular, or practised only under particular leaders, wasintroduced into every portion. All the arrangements, even to the minutest,were planned and perfected by Steuben, and the vast machinery of our armybegan to move in harmony and order. He had one company which he drilledto the highest point of discipline, as a model by which to instruct the result of all this was seen in the very next campaign, at the battle of Mon-mouth. Washington there rallied his men when in full retreat, and broughtthem into action under the very blaze of the enemys guns. They wheeled likeveteran tioops into their places, and then moved steadily on the foe. For some time previous to his encampment at Valley Forge, had his head-quarters at Whitemarsh, in Montgomerycounty, (a few miles east,) a view of which is here afforded. The. WASniXGTONS HEAD-QUARTERS AT WHITEMARSH. whole surrounding country is full of incidents connected with themovement of the army in this vicinity, and all have more or lessinterest to the American reader; but we agree with the poet, that— 64 OFF-IIANDSKETCHES. The camp has had its day of song— The sAvord, the bayonet, and the plume,Have crowded out of rhyme too long The plough, the anvil, and the , not upon our tented fields Are Freedoms heroes hred alone ;The training of the loorshhop yields More heroes true than war has drives the bolt, who shapes the steel, May, with a heart as valiant, he who sees a foeman reel In blood before his blow of might!The skill that conquers space and time, That graces life, that lightens toil,May spring from courage more sublime Than that which makes a realm its spoil. Valley Forge contains a cotton factor
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