DeKalb's Division (Learned's Brigade) - Valley Forge, PA
N 40° 05.616 W 075° 26.037
18T E 463008 N 4438236
This is the fourth in a series of granite & bronze monuments which line the encampment road tour here at Valley Forge National Historic Park. This marker acknowledges the 2nd, 8th & 9th Massachusetts Infantry & is the second to bear the DeKalb name.
Waymark Code: WMB2DD
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2011
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There are dozens of these stone/bronze markers on the encampment tour as part of the Valley Forge National Historical Park. This one, like the others consists of a huge stone marker, about six feet tall, smooth in the front and back with the sides roughly hewn. The stone is about five feet wide, just short of the height and is about afoot and a half deep. There is a three by four foot bronze tablet attached to the center of the stone monument. The is another monument a few hundred feet away which bears the same name but a different brigade. The bronze marker reads:
Continental Army— Valley Forge December 19 1777 June 18 1778 —
DeKalb’s Division
Major General Baron DeKalb
Learned’s Brigade
Major General Baron DeKalb
Learned's Brigade
Brig. General Ebenezer Learned
Commanding
2nd Massachusetts Infantry Col. John Bailey
8th Massachusetts Infantry Col. Michael Jackson
9th Massachusetts Infantry Col. James Wesson
This is the third tablet on the self-guided tour. This marker is on Outer Line Road, on the right when traveling west, away from the welcome venter. The Marker is on the tour road in Valley Forge National Historical Park. In back of the monument is an asphalt jogging/walking path which follows the tour route. The small path was very busy this warm, Saturday afternoon.