George Washington's Camp Bed

Historian James Thomas Flexner famously called George Washington "the indispensible man" of the American Revolution. As Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, General Washington refused to profit from the war, accepting only reimbursement for his expenses and returned to Mount Vernon only once during the eight-year long war.

Although he usually did not sleep on the bare ground like many of the enlisted men, his camp lifestyle was hardly comfortable. Pictured above and below is one of the beds that he used toward the end of the war.

You can find this bed within the collections of the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.

-via Massimo