PowerPoint Presentation - WashingtonŐs Vision at Valley Forge

Suspicious Features

ĄThe author, Wesley Bradshaw, is a pseudonym for Charles Wesley Alexander, an author and publisher of many sensational stories.

ĄHis alleged informant, Anthony Sherman:

–Claims that he was the only one alive who knew of this incident in 1859.

–Is 99 when he tells the story to Bradshaw on July 4, 1859.

–Would have been only 17 in 1777, so not likely to have been the Ňconfidential officerÓ to whom Washington is supposed to have told the story.

ĄThe only Anthony Sherman known to have served in the American forces during the Revolution was not present at Valley Forge and apparently died before 1840.