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Date Created: 1975
Description: Veteran of the 1st Maryland Regiment loading his captured British 'Brown Bess' musket.
Description: Strapped to shoes or boots, ice creepers or cleats, allowed the soldier to cross frozen surfaces.
Date Created: 1781-1784
Description: Brigadier General Chevalier Louis Lebèque dePresle Duportail was one of several officers sent by the French government to assist the American cause. He laid out the Valley Forge encampment and planned a system of fortifications.
Description: Washington Letter drafted at Valley Forge, dated 'Head Quarters, Valley Forge, 5th June 1778.' This one page document appoints William Robert Erskine as Military Surveyor and Geographer to the Continental Army.
Description: Musical instrument also called a jew's-harp. This example lacks the steel vibrator.
Description: Collapsible pocket telescope with screw lens cap. Made by Dollond, London.
Date Created: 1779
Description: Handwritten inscription on the front cover 'July the 28th. 1779 Capt. John Alexander, 7th Pennsylvania Regiment'
Description: The Revolutionary War soldier carried tools to service his musket, including the pick and brush. It was used to brush out the musket's flash pan and clear the musket's touchhole of accumulated black powder residue.
Date Created: 1975
Description: At left is a staff officer to a general, as indicated by the green plume. At right is a light infantry officer of a New England regiment.
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