How big is the ornament?

3 inches (76 mm) across, faceted crystal glass with a red ribbon hanger, in a white or gold gift box.

What is the Winter Encampment ornament?

An original engraving-style line drawing of a granite obelisk between two stone blockhouses at the entrance to a Revolutionary War winter camp, set in a three-inch faceted crystal round with a white back and a red ribbon hanger. Part of the Merlin Classics Heritage Series.

What was a Revolutionary War winter encampment?

Between campaigns the Continental Army went into winter quarters, spreading its brigades among camps where the soldiers built log huts, guarded supply depots and waited for spring. Valley Forge (1777-78) and Jockey Hollow at Morristown (1779-80) are the best known, but there were others.

Is this Valley Forge?

No. The drawing is taken from a smaller Connecticut winter camp, now preserved as a state park, whose monument and blockhouses were added in the late 1800s. It stands for all the winter camps.

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Winter Encampment · The Men Who Stayed · Heritage Holiday Ornament

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Winter Encampment. A granite obelisk between two low stone blockhouses, bare trees behind, a lane leading in. This is the way into a Revolutionary War winter camp, and the men who went into camps like it were walking into three months of cold.

Valley Forge is the winter everyone knows, and Jockey Hollow at Morristown is the one historians call worse. They were not the only ones. Continental Army brigades spread out each winter into smaller encampments to guard supplies, and the Continental soldiers in them built their own log huts, drilled on short rations, went unpaid for months, and were still there when spring came. The camps held the army together between campaigns as surely as any battle won it.

The obelisk and the stone blockhouses came a century later, put up to mark the ground and to echo the log forts of an older frontier war. The ground itself is what the soldiers knew.

Our own engraving-style line drawing, set in crystal so the stonework and the winter trees read under the lights. Three inches across; a winter scene with a history.

For park friends groups, Revolutionary War reenactors, historical societies, and everyone who has stood in a quiet field in January and tried to picture it full of huts and smoke.

Faceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.

QUICK FACTS — WINTER ENCAMPMENT CRYSTAL ORNAMENT

Series: Heritage Holiday Ornament

Art: Winter Encampment (The Men Who Stayed), original Merlin Classics engraving printed to the glass

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

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