The North Carolinians went into quarters at Trenton and took part in the battles of Brandywine, Sept. 11th, and Germantown Oct 4th. This was a disastrous battle for North Carolina. Gen. Nash was mortally wounded, Col. Buncombe and six other officers killed and many of the troops killed or wounded.

Pennsylvanians have placed a monument over the grave of Gen. Nash, near Philadelphia. The congress of the United States also voted a monument to Gen. Nash, which was unveiled July 4th, 1906, at the Guilford (N.C.) battleground. The North Carolina D.A.R., in cooperation with the North Carolina Society of Pennsylvania, have erected a handsome granite and bronze marker to the memory of Gen. Nash, which was unveiled on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Germantown, October, 1927.

(With) the British taking Philadelphia, which was the seat of the American government, it became necessary to move the American Archives and the Liberty Bell to a place of safety. Colonel Thomas Polk of Mecklenburg County, N.C., with his command, was chosen by Washington to escort and convoy the Bell and the important documents, among which was the Declaration of Independence, to Bethlehem, Pa., to be placed in the care of the Moravians. It is interesting to note, when President Washington visited Charlotte, on his Southern tour in 1791, he was the guest of General and Mrs. Polk at a garden party on the grounds of his beautiful colonial home.

In December, 1777, the North Carolinians, with the rest of the army, went into winter quarters at Valley Forge. As the men trudged to this little Pennsylvania village, their shoeless feet marked the frozen road with blood. They were without tents, blankets and sufficient clothes. During that dreadful winter, 50 of the North Carolina troops died and 400 more were ill in camp and in hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

As soon as Gov. Caswell learned of the suffering of the soldiers, he sent workmen to making shoes, clothing and blankets. These, with large quantities of bacon, were sent by wagons to the North Carolinians at Valley Forge. Supplies also had to be sent by the State for the whole army, as communication was only open southward, and Virginia and North Carolina furnished almost all the food and clothing for Washington's army that winter.

By spring, there were 1450 North Carolina men, rank and file, at Valley Forge, besides those killed in battle who had died from sickness and exposure. At Valley Forge, the North Carolina Brigade, formerly commanded by General Nash, was placed under Brigadier General Lochlan McIntosh, a Georgia officer, and later was commanded by Gen. Thomas Clark.

The North Carolina troops also participated in the battles of Monmouth and Stony Point in the summer following the encampment at Valley Forge and fought valiantly under Washington wherever he led until he ordered them South to defend their homes. Cornwallis and Clinton were concentrating their forces in that section and thence forward, until the struggle closed at Yorktown, the theater of war was staged in the Carolinas and Georgia.

North Carolina's Bay in the Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge was placed in honor of her brave soldiers who were with Washington during that terrible winter of 1777-1778 and the battles before and after the encampment at Valley Forge.

The State of Pennsylvania also placed a marker to the memory of the North Carolina troops on the site of their huts.