By the Gulph Road the Commission has placed a battery. Beyond this, on the left, is the grave of an unknown soldier of the Revolution.

Huntington Redoubt.- For some distance there have been no intrenchments, but the line is soon reached again, and just beyond the point where they first appear is the path to

Huntington Redoubt. The traverse is 100 feet long, and the top of the earthwork is in some places 20 feet from the bottom of the fosse.

In front of it there has been buried a soldier whose body was discovered while making some improvements on one of the farms in the neighborhood. From the location of the body and the buttons found with it, it is presumed that he is

the soldier who suffered in consequence of Wayne's advice to a farmer. This man complained to Wayne that the soldiers were robbing him. Wayne told him to shoot the next man he caught at it, which he did, killing a soldier who was milking one of his cows without the formality of a permission. The headstone bears the following inscription:

HERE LIE THE REMAINS

OF A

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER

SHOT ON A NEIGHBORING

FARM DURING THE WINTER

OF 1777 AND 1778

To the right the Commission has placed a pump for the use of visitors to the Park. The hillside on which it is placed was the site of Huntington's Brigade.

Huntington Grove.-The Park Commission has placed

tables and benches under the trees near the boulevard for the use of picnic parties. Tables will be reserved by the guard if application be made to A. H. Bowen, superintendent of the Park. His address is New Centreville, Pa.

The other picnic grounds at Valley Forge are those adjoining the Valley Forge Inn and the Washington Memorial Chapel. The former are close to the millpond, on which there is boating, and within a short distance of Washington's headquarters. The Washington Chapel Grove is back of the Washington Memorial Chapel, and is provided with conveniences for picnic parties.

At the end of the earthworks the Commission has built a guardhouse overlooking the River Road. To this the boulevard makes a steep descent. Valley Forge Station, on the Reading Railway, can be reached more quickly by following the boulevard on the other side of the road, but most persons will prefer to turn to the left and follow the River Road to Valley Forge. To reach the Washintgon Memorial Chapel, Port Kennedy Station, on the Reading Railway, and Betzwood, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, turn to the right.

WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS.

W

ASHINGTON'S headquarters are the chief object of interest beyond the line of fortifications. Following the River Road to the left in its descent to Valley Creek, one has a view on the right of the boulevard along the river and of the site of the huts of McIntosh's Brigade and the Life Guards.

McIntosh's Brigade.—To mark the former the Commission has placed a marker among the trees on the right. It bears the following inscription:

CONTINENTAL ARMY

VALLEY FORGE, DECEMBER 19, 1777—JUNE 18, 1778

SULLIVAN'S DIVISION

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN SULLIVAN

MC INTOSH'S BRIGADE

BRIGADIER-GENERAL LACHLAN MC INTOSH

COMMANDING

IST NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL THOMAS CLARK 2D NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL JOHN PATTON 3D NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL JETHRO SUMNER 4TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL THOMAS POLK 5TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM L.

DAVIDSON

6TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL GIDEON LAMB 7TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL JAMES HOGUN 8TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL JAMES ARMSTRONG 9TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COLONEL JOHN WILLIAMS

The commander of this brigade, Gen. Lachlan McIntosh, was a man of striking personality. His father had gone from Scotland to settle in Georgia under Gen. E. Oglethorpe, and was

the originator of the protest of the colonists against the introduction of African slaves into the colony. While acting as a clerk in Charleston, S. C., Lachlan lived in the family of the patriotic Henry Laurens. Later he studied mathematics and civil engineering, being also greatly interested in military tactics. He was appointed brigadier-general in 1776.

Before the evacuation General McIntosh was sent to the frontier of Pennsylvania and Virginia to quell an insurrection of the Western Indians. Washington had a high opinion of him, and in a letter to the President of Congress, May 12, 1778, said: "I part with this gentleman with much reluctance, as I esteem him an officer of great merit and worth. His firm disposition and equal justice, his assiduity and good understanding, point him out as a proper person to go, but I know his services here are and will be materially wanted."

The Bakehouse.-The Washington Inn stands at the junction of the River Road and the Valley Creek Road. It includes the old "Mansion House" of the Potts estate, supposed to have been erected prior to 1768. When the house was enlarged the original building was not disturbed, but the newer portions were built around the old. This older portion is now used as a dining-room of the hotel. In 1773, Joseph Potts conveyed an undivided moiety of Mount Joy Forge to William Dewees, who seems to have occupied the house as early as 1771, and to have carried on the iron works in connection with David Potts.

On August 30, 1777, the Board of War sent the following letter to President Wharton: "Sir: There is a large quantity of flour spoiling for the Want of baking. It lies at Valley Forge; I am directed to request of you that you with the Council will be pleased to order Furloughs to be given to six Bakers out of the Militia for the purpose of baking the Flour into hard biscuit. Colonel Dewees will receive your order & endeavor to find out the Bakers.

"RICH. PETERS, Sec."

To help carry out this order it would seem that Colonel

Dewees built the large ovens in the cellar. Unfortunately these were removed a few years ago.

During the British occupation of Valley Forge the house was not destroyed, as it has been stated, but was ransacked and damaged. The story is told of how Mrs. Dewees gathered

many of the valuables in one room and bravely told the soldiers that they should enter it only over her dead body. Such heroism was appreciated and her treasures were saved. However, her feather beds were ripped open and emptied, and one of her descendants has a bed made of these feathers. This apparently wanton act was prompted by the knowledge that a feather bed was most often the thrifty housewife's saving bank.

When the American camp was established the ovens built