Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . and his Lady there. DiaiT of George Washington. The Wages of War. As fixed by Congress, the pay of a Colonel of infantry, per month, was $;of Captains, $; of Sergeants, $, and of Privates, $ Years after the close of the war numerous veteran associations were engagedin the effort to obtain from the government money due their members because ofthe depreciation of the currency in which they had been paid. Real Money, After Five Years of Scrip We marched from our encampment abut 11 oclock yesterday, crossedSchuylkill bridge, and m
Valley Forge, a chronicle of American heroism . and his Lady there. DiaiT of George Washington. The Wages of War. As fixed by Congress, the pay of a Colonel of infantry, per month, was $;of Captains, $; of Sergeants, $, and of Privates, $ Years after the close of the war numerous veteran associations were engagedin the effort to obtain from the government money due their members because ofthe depreciation of the currency in which they had been paid. Real Money, After Five Years of Scrip We marched from our encampment abut 11 oclock yesterday, crossedSchuylkill bridge, and marched into the city down Chestnut Street about oneoclock, the detachment divided into two Battalions. We marched down FrontStreet and embarqd near the Drawbridge, hauled off in the Stream and felldown opposite Almond Street. About an hour after the most of the officerswent on shore and received from the Paymaster one months pay in hard money;the first of the kind any of our line ever received Letter book of Lieut. Enos Reeves, Oct. 2d, ROSTER OF TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE The list of Infantry Brigades, taken from original records in the WarDepartment, was supplied to the author by Adjutant General F. E. Ainsworth,U. S. A., through the courtesy of Hon. Geo. D. McCreary, M. C. Where thenames of officers and numbers of organizations are in parentheses they wereobtained from the existing brigade markers and other sources. It should be observed that the muster roll of July, 1778, (Bradford abstract)shows that many of the regiments had been consolidated in June and July, orearlier, and appear under different numbers. GENERAL RETURN OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY ENCAMPED AT VALLEY . FORGE IN PENNSYLVANIA, UNDER THE IMMEDIATE COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY GEO. WASHINGTON, ESQ., DEC. 31, 1777 First Maryland Brigade 14th Virginia Regt. ( Wm. 1st Maryland Regt. (Col. John H. ^^^If^o , • i. /r- , ,,r ,. Stone) e. V .» j^^]-^ Pennsylvania Regt. (Col. Walter 3d Maryland Regt. (Col. Mo
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