Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . Memorial Bowlder and Tablet at Gulph Mill i8. Thk Road from Gulph Mill to Valley Forge portion of the forest had already been sacrificed in the work of building and forfires. The stumps and brush were left along the declivity in front of theearthworks as a defense against storming parties. Later, when the redoubts weredug, a series of sharply-pointed pickets was planted between them. The redoubtswere four feet high, with a ditch six feet wide. General Washington occupied his usual army tent and shared the out-of-doorlog fires of the soldiery duri
Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . Memorial Bowlder and Tablet at Gulph Mill i8. Thk Road from Gulph Mill to Valley Forge portion of the forest had already been sacrificed in the work of building and forfires. The stumps and brush were left along the declivity in front of theearthworks as a defense against storming parties. Later, when the redoubts weredug, a series of sharply-pointed pickets was planted between them. The redoubtswere four feet high, with a ditch six feet wide. General Washington occupied his usual army tent and shared the out-of-doorlog fires of the soldiery during the work of building the huts, and it was probablyupon Christmas Day that he accepted the invitation of Isaac Potts, the millerand the minister of Friends, and moved into his snug house at the foot of thehill. Upon this day he found time to write up his ledger, making the following entry: To expenditures in the different and continual movements of the army fromGermantown Sept. 15 till we hutted at Valley Forge the 25th of Dec. pr. mem.,$1, or Washingtons Military Family A
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