following the large German immigration from Pennsylvania and other middle states. He went to England in order to receive Episcopal ordination and on his return was rector of Woodstock. Washington asked him to accept a colonel's commission, and when it was received he preached his farewell sermon, in the course of which he said: "There is a time for all things— a time to preach and a time to pray-but there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come." Pronouncing the benediction he threw back his preacher's gown, disclosing the Continental uniform. Proceeding to the door he ordered the drums to beat for recruits, the response being the enlistment of about three hundred. Read's description of the scene may well be recalled on such a spot as this:

A moment there was awful pause

When Berkley cried, "Cease, traitor! cease!
God's temple is the house of peace!”
The other shouted, "Nay, not so,

When God is with our righteous cause;
His holiest places then are ours,
His temples are our forts and towers,
That frown upon the tyrant foe;
In this, the dawn of Freedom's day,
There is a time to fight and pray!"

And now before the open door

The warrior priest had ordered so-
The enlisting trumpet's sudden roar
Rang through the chapel, o'er and o'er.
Its long reverberating blow,

So loud and clear, it seem'd the ear
Of dusty death must wake and hear.
And there the startling drum and fife
Fired the living with fiercer life;
While overhead, with wild increase,
Forgetting its ancient toll of peace,
The great bell swung as ne'er before:
It seemed as it would never cease;

And every word its ardor flung
From off its jubilant iron tongue
Was "War! War! War!"

"Who dares"-this was the patriot's cry,
As striding from the desk he came—
"Come out with me, in Freedom's name,
For her to live, for her to die?"
A hundred hands flung up reply,

A hundred voices answered "I!"

Under such a man as that it is no wonder that his regiment, the 8th Virginia, gained a reputation for discipline and bravery, nor that he rose to honor in the service. While the army lay here he often rode over to the Trappe to visit his family, and stories are told of his narrow escapes from capture by the British on these occasions.

The marker placed by the State of Pennsylvania bears the following inscription:

CONTINENTAL ARMY

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

GREENE'S DIVISION

MAJOR-GENERAL NATHANIEL GREENE

MUHLENBERG'S BRIGADE

BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. PETER G. MUHLENBERG

COMMANDING

GERMAN REGIMENT," PENNSYLVANIA LINE, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LEWIS WELTNER

RAISED JULY 12, 1776-MUSTERED OUT JANUARY 1781

IST REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, COLONEL RICHARD PARKER 5TH REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, COLONEL ABRAHAM BUFORD 9TH REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BURGESS

BALL

13TH REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY

VIRGINIA STATE REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, COLONEL GEORGE GIBSON

The Commission has named this part of the boulevard in honor of the soldier-preacher "Brigadier-General Muhlenberg Avenue."

Weedon's Brigade.- The next brigade was also from Virginia. It was commanded by Gen. George Weedon. He and his man had won distinction in the gallant support which they had given to General Greene in the battle of Brandywine, helping to check the British pursuit and enabling the Americans to rally. General Weedon occupied the house which stood almost on the site of that which stands to the south of

this point, but nearer Trout Creek. When the army moved from Gulph Mills the people in this neighborhood had no notice of the intention to place the winter camp here. Their first intimation was the approach of the army. An officer hastily rode up to the farmhouse of Abijah Stephens and chalked on the door "Headquarters of General Weedon," and ordered the family to make ready to receive its uninvited guests. Mrs. Stephens had a large quantity of buckwheat and at once mixed a tub full of batter. While others baked cakes she prepared soup, roast beef, etc. Much to the rage of the General those

who first reached the house did not stand upon ceremony, but satisfied their hunger before he arrived. He remained in camp only a short time, resigning on account of a question of rank with General Woodford. General Weedon's Orderly Book is preserved in the library of the American Philosophical Society, and is one of the greatest authorities on the affairs in this camp. It has been published by the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker under the auspices of the Society.

Baron DeKalb, a brigadier in the French service, afterwards made the house his headquarters. At the crossroads beyond the house is an old blacksmith shop built of logs, and said to have been used as a smithy by the soldiers.

The Commission has placed upon the marker the following record of the officers and regiments of this brigade:

CONTINENTAL ARMY

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

GREENE'S DIVISION

MAJOR-GENERAL NATHANIEL GREENE

WEEDON'S BRIGADE

BRIGADIER-GENERAL GEORGE WEEDON

COMMANDING

13TH REGIMENT INFANTRY, PENNSYLVANIA LINE, COLONEL WALTER STEWART

(RAISED AS "STATE REGIMENT OF FOOT," MARCH I, 1777, ATTACHED TO PENNSYLVANIA LINE AS 13TH REGIMENT INFANTRY,

NOVEMBER 12, 1777; CONSOLIDATED WITH 2D
REGIMENT INFANTRY, JULY 1, 1778)

2D REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES

DABNEY

6TH REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, COLONEL JOHN GIBSON IOTH REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, COLONEL JOHN GREEN 14TH REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

WILLIAM DAVIS

Greene's Division.— The division to which these brigades belonged was commanded by the "fighting Quaker," MajorGeneral Nathaniel Greene. He was only thirty-six years of age when he came to Valley Forge. Upon the news of the Battle of Bunker Hill the Rhode Island Legislature raised three regiments and made Greene a brigadier-general. He was selected by the

MAJOR-GENERAL NATHANIEL GREENE.

From the original portrait owned by Mrs. William Benton Greene. soldiers to welcome Washington, the commander-in-chief, and the two men became firm friends, Washington quickly recognizing his sterling abilities. He was made a major-general on the 9th of August, 1776, and while at Valley Forge became quartermastergeneral, but reserved his right to command on the field of battle, for he was pre-eminently a soldier.