George Washington's tent
Washington's first pair of campaign tents were made by Philadelphia upholsterer Plunket Fleeson in Spring 1776.[1] New tents were ordered by Deputy Quartermaster General James Abeel in June 1778, but the maker was not identified.Within its venerable folds, Washington was in the habit of seeking privacy and seclusion, where he could commune with himself, and where he wrote the most memorable of his despatches in the Revolutionary war.[5]In 2017, Philip Mead, chief historian at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, and museum curators determined that a panoramic watercolor painting by Pierre Charles L'Enfant was of the 1782 encampment at Verplanck's Point and depicted the office and sleeping tent in field use.Their enslaved housekeeper, Selina Norris Gray, kept the tent fabric safe when Union Army soldiers ransacked Arlington House during the American Civil War.
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