The Muhlenberg Brigade was led by Montgomery County native Peter Muhlenberg. Muhlenberg was a Lutheran pastor until the outbreak of war, when he was authorized as a colonel, raising the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. By early 1777, he had risen to the rank of brigadier general, with his troops seeing service in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.
Muhlenberg's men were among those who arrived in Valley Forge on December 19, 1777. This series of recreated cabins have been built on the site where Muhlenberg's men were encamped. The original cabins were built in a matter of days within arriving at Valley Forge, with George Washington turning it into a competition among the men to see who could build fastest. Each one of the cabins would house a dozen soldiers, crammed on bunks. Many of the cabins in the Muhlenberg Brigade, and around the park, are open for visitors to enter, or gaze in, to see what living conditions were like in the camp.
Valley Forge National Historic Park in Pennsylvania.
Technical details:
Zero Image 75mm 4x5" wood and brass pinhole (lensless) camera.
Ilford Delta 100 film shot at 100 ISO.
8 seconds at F216.
Developed in Pyrocat HD at 1:1:100 dilution for 8 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius in Jobo Multitank 5 with 2509N sheet film reels with drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.
Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders fitted with ANR glass.
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