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Muhlenberg Brigade Huts, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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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.
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