The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

A 1911 public domain photograph by Reverend W. Herbert Burk of George Washington’s Revolutionary War tent. But after the Jamestown show, Custis Lee donated the tents to a benefit sale for the ...

Mount Vernon’s Revolutionary War Weekend is May 4-5. The replica of George Washington’s battlefield tent at Mount Vernon is oval shaped and approximately 24 feet long, 14 feet wide. By Glenda ...

After the war’s end in 1783, the tent and the rest of Washington’s military equipment went into storage at his Mount Vernon estate. Following his death in 1799, the tent took on new roles.

The tents, used during the Revolutionary War, held his sleeping and office quarters where he led meetings, planned strategies and wrote letters. Over the years, ...

The fragment of George Washington’s war tent on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Museum of the American Revolution) ...