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Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site of their winter encampment. After the soldiers came the army's wagons, then hundreds of camp women.

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Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment tells the story of the forgotten women who spent the winter of 177778 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

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