The 17 objects below are a selection of the 140 objects from the George Washington & His Generals Exhibition. Please contact mwood@mountvernon.org if you are interested in receiving images of additional objects.

Emmanuel Leutze, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, 1857, oil on canvas. Credit: The Monmouth County Historical Association.

 

General Artemas Ward''s red wool cloak, made in America, ca. 1760-1775, is a rare survival from the Revolutionary War. Credit: President and Fellows of Harvard University, Artemas Ward House Museum.

Pistols made by John Murdoch, Doune, Scotland, mid-18th century. Credit: Lexington Historical Society. Photograph by Doug Mindell.

Detail of Benjamin Tallmadge’s memoirs, ca. 1830. Credit: Courtesy of Fraunces Tavern Museum/ Sons of the Revolution in the State of NY.

Firsthand account of Washington’s emotional farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City. Credit: Courtesy of Fraunces Tavern Museum/ Sons of the Revolution in the State of NY.

Knox's copy of the marching orders for crossing the Delaware River and invading Trenton. Credit: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, Courtesy of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, NY.

 

Knox's handwritten copy of the marching orders for the attack on Trenton includes a sketched map of the town on its reverse. Credit: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, Courtesy of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, NY.

Artemas Ward's son, Thomas, likely wore this cocked hat with paper cockade, America, ca. 1775-1789. Credit: President and Fellows of Harvard University, Artemas Ward House Museum

Commission of Benedict Arnold as major general in the Continental Army, May 2, 1777. Signed by John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress. Credit: Mount Vernon Ladies'' Association.

This cannon is thought to be the only surviving intact cannon that Henry Knox transported from Ticonderoga to Boston during the winter of 1775-1776. Credit: Courtesy of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.

Congress awarded Horatio Gates this gold medal, designed by French engraver Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux and struck at the Royal Mint in Paris in 1787, for his stunning victory at Saratoga in 1777. Credit: Collection of the New York Historical Society.

Comitia Americana medal, Horatio Gates at Saratoga, 1777, engraved by Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, Paris, France, 1787. Credit: Collection of the New York Historical Society.

Otho Holland Williams by Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827), oil on canvas, ca. 1782-1784. Credit: Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland.

Detail of inscription on the hilt of a French sword, ca. 1750-1770, recording its presentation to Lt. James Giles, 2nd Continental Artillery, by the marquis de Lafayette on September 9, 1780. Credit: Morristown National Historical Park.

Charles Willson Peale, Nathanael Greene, 1783, oil on canvas. Credit: Montclair Art Museum.

Ralph Earl, Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Steuben, 1786, oil on canvas. Earl painted this stately portrait the same year the Prussian-born general received honorary American citizenship and a land grant from the New York legislature. Credit: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Gift of Stephen