in Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment, 1:52; “The Journal of John Charles Philip von Krafft, of the Regiment von Bose, 1776–1784,” Collections of the New-York Historical Society 15 (1882): 18.

Valley Forge National Historical Park connects millions of visitors each year to our nation’s Revolutionary War history and to a landscape rich with diverse plants and animals. During the winter of ...