Show IS 0 sn SPOT rot valley forge will for all time be held in Glo Glori ofis memory by americans Is n name VALLBY which inspires hunspe etab emotions in every cry reade 11 he story oppe ng to the depth ot of tile the pathetic in its by their sufferings all and to our sense reuse by their heir fortitude that winter tit nt valley forgo surpasses t alio to re reat from moscow for the american heroes and thor their great commander endured through the long winter instead of fleeing allow comes it sir said bald washington 9 to the officer as they marched into tho the valley alley that I 1 have tracked the march of your by tile the bloodstains on the lie frozen ground were there no shoes in the commissaris commiss arys stores store that this still spectacle li 14 to bo be seen along the public highway the officer replied when shoes were issued the re regiments imenes were served in turn it was our misfortune to bo be among tho the last and the stores been ne exhausted emotions were ere of he strongest kind and lie he said ioor f acl 1 I lows loal I 1 at no period of the war chief justice marshall iliad had the amerlean american army been reduced to a situa alon of greater perit peril than during the winter nt at valley forge more than once they ars were absolutely without food there was seldom at any mi time a quart city of provIs provisions lons sufficient for a week eek tito returns of the first of february exhibited the astonishing number of I 1 I 1 old picture of subduing broil at vall vail y r forge orge fieo met lit in caknip unfit for foi duty for want ant or of clothed cloth eq of this number scarcely it dmn bifid a pair of shoes although the total of the lie arm army y exceeded men the effect effective lVe rank anti anil lie file amounted to n their clothes were tt ere in tatters the quaker ionic potts tills its of at 1 l ley lo 10 forge how ns lie the ME est lie heard a fervent voice ap pron chIng nearer whom should lie be told lit in a kind of bower but tho the corn com in chief on tits hta knees praying to tile the of tile the at the moment when friend potts concealed by li tile trees i cattle up washington was interceding Inter ceding for his belovec be loveI country count ry when lian lie reached had bonjo his wife asked the deuson for foi lilb his ill 1 I lae this lily day seen replied he mint I 1 shall never forget it if george georg washington be not a nian man of god I 1 am and tin still more shall I 1 be disappointed it if god through lint him does doci not perform some ome great thing for tho the country countr |