Glover's Brigade - Valley Forge, PA
N 40° 05.545 W 075° 26.263
18T E 462686 N 4438106
This is the fifth in a series of granite & bronze monuments which line the encampment road tour here at Valley Forge National Historic Park. This marker acknowledges the 1st, 4th, 13th & 15th Massachusetts Infantry units.
Waymark Code: WMB2NW
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/27/2011
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This marker can be found within the National Memorial Arch 'circle', a special area with some monster monuments including the Massachusetts Monuments, the National Arch, and the Masonic Monument.
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 —
Division
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Glover’s Brigade
Brig. General John Glover
commanding
1st Massachusetts Infantry Col. Joseph Vose
4th Massachusetts Infantry Col. William Shepard
13th Massachusetts Infantry Col. Edward Wigglesworth
15th Massachusetts Infantry Col. Timothy Bigelow