{"product_id":"heritage-series-winter-encampment-holiday-ornament","title":"Winter Encampment · The Men Who Stayed · Heritage Holiday Ornament","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/heritage-ornaments\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center;background:#F0EAD6;color:#0B0B0B;border:1px solid #000000;padding:12px 16px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMore Heritage Ornaments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinter Encampment.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValley 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/heritage-ornaments\" style=\"color:#6b6b6b;text-decoration:underline;\"\u003eMore Heritage Ornaments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cmeta name=\"keywords\" content=\"continental army, blockhouse, continental soldiers, encampment, revolutionary war reenactment, revolutionary war reenactors, bare trees drawing, colonial reenactment, continental army soldiers, granite obelisk, military encampment, obelisk monument, revolutionary war historic sites, revolutionary war park, revolutionary war sites, war monument, winter ornament, winter ornaments, winter scene ornament, winter scene ornaments, blockhouse fort, colonial blockhouse, continental army history, life of a revolutionary war soldier, memorial obelisk, obelisk ornament, reenactment camp, revolutionary war camp, revolutionary war camps, revolutionary war monument, revolutionary war reenactment events, revolutionary war soldiers life, revolutionary war winter, stone blockhouse, winter encampment, winter of 1778\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"continental army\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"blockhouse\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"continental soldiers\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"encampment\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war reenactment\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war reenactors\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"bare trees drawing\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"colonial reenactment\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"continental army soldiers\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"granite obelisk\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"military encampment\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"obelisk monument\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war historic sites\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war park\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war sites\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"war monument\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"winter ornament\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"winter ornaments\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"winter scene ornament\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"winter scene ornaments\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"blockhouse fort\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"colonial blockhouse\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"continental army history\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"life of a revolutionary war soldier\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"memorial obelisk\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"obelisk ornament\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"reenactment camp\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war camp\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war camps\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war monument\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war reenactment events\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war soldiers life\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"revolutionary war winter\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"stone blockhouse\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"winter encampment\"\u003e\u003cmeta property=\"article:tag\" content=\"winter of 1778\"\u003e\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Winter Encampment ornament?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"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. 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