Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . ls. General Charles Lee, whose strange behavior at Monmouth broughtupon him the wrath of Washington and deprived the patriots of a decisive victory,was proven, nearly eighty years after the event, to have been a traitor and a toolof the enemy. CHAPTER XIV VALLEY FORGE IN AFTER YEARS See Notes upon page 87 The army turned its back upon a ruined region. Fences, forests, farmanimals, domestic utensils, all had disappeared. In payment for their suppliesand toil the residents held only wads of dirty Continental script, which wasafterward repudiated by
Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . ls. General Charles Lee, whose strange behavior at Monmouth broughtupon him the wrath of Washington and deprived the patriots of a decisive victory,was proven, nearly eighty years after the event, to have been a traitor and a toolof the enemy. CHAPTER XIV VALLEY FORGE IN AFTER YEARS See Notes upon page 87 The army turned its back upon a ruined region. Fences, forests, farmanimals, domestic utensils, all had disappeared. In payment for their suppliesand toil the residents held only wads of dirty Continental script, which wasafterward repudiated by the government without a shadow of justice. Where theblare of the trumpet or the roll of the funeral drums had echoed, where fireshad glowed along the hills at night, silence and desolation reigned. It was onlyafter a generation that the people roundabout fully recovered from the ironheel of war. About 1794 the Headquarters Mansion was sold by Isaac Potts to Jacob Paulof Germantown, whose family lived there until 1826. It was then bought by a. War and Peace 58
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