My name is Paul J. Lazar, and Jabez Rockwell is my great-great - great-great-great-grandfather.

He is one of the gentlemen in the boat with General Washington in the Emanuel Leutze painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware.

He was born in 1761, and here he was at 15 years old, fighting for the birth of our nation.

We often hear the stories of Valley Forge.

These are accurate depictions of what they had to stay in.

As best as we know, the original huts were torn down very quickly after the Army left.

The most common depictions of Valley Forge are in the dead of winter, which they were certainly here in the dead of winter, but they're here all the way through June.

Men's souls were definitely tested, were definitely tried.

They were underfed, they were undersupplied.

One of the companies here had one axe amongst them, and that axe had to be signed out by the major every single day.

So their weapons and everything, that was no big deal, but that axe had to be checked out in the morning, had to be returned in the evening.

A local quartermaster happened to bring in ten of these battle horns.

A powder horn typically would be carried by a soldier to carry their looser bulk powder in between fighting.

Problem is, there were 30 men, but only ten horns to give out.

So Jabez piped up, we should draw lots.

General George Washington went with the idea, and George Washington gave him a powder horn.

What's really cool about a lot of them is that, a lot of ones that survived the war is, they're one of the few insights into the soldier's personalities.

And he inscribed things on it, he took very good care of it, and he used it from 1778 until 1781.

Like it's a little personal record that you have of that individual soldier.

Jabez's powder horn, we know that right now it's housed in a military museum in Virginia.

Yeah, it's the new museum of the United States Army, it's at Fort Belvoir.

It's in our collection, but it's on long - term loan to the Army, so it is in good hands.

He was wounded in battle, he was seen by General George Washington as they took him to the field hospital.

Washington said, thank you for what you did, and Jabez's response is, all I wanted to do was do justice to the powder horn, and to do right by it, and do right by you.

I think if we're speaking towards patriotism, it was everybody's effort in their own ways.

Was there something particularly special about the landscape?

Perhaps not.

It was the gathering of individuals that were here, I think.

Washington's here at Valley Forge, and he's hearing directly of their deprivations.

General Green, the new quartermaster, is starting to straighten out things, and Major General von Steuben has a regiment laid out for everybody, so I think it helped solidify Washington's command.

A month and a half later, when they go pursue the British, it's not this cobbled - together force that marched in, it is a much more professionalized force that marches out.

To be here, to retrace the steps, it's very surreal.

Jabez is holding that powder horn.

If you were to somehow hit pause on his life and walk up to him and be like, just letting you know, that powder horn is going to be on display in the Museum of the United States Army 250 years from now.

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to see it.

It's going to be within a day's ride of the capital of the United States.

What's the reaction he would have?

To be able to be standing, maybe in a place he was.

It's a part of your story that you don't always get to experience, and here we are.