Sheilah D VanceSheilah Vance, Esq. grew up on Rebel Hill in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania and resides in Washington, D.C. She has written and presented extensively about the Philadelphia Campaign of the Revolutionary War. She is the author of the article, “Valley Forges Threshold: The Encampment at Gulph Mills,” in the Journal of the American Revolution; the award-winning novel, Becoming Valley Forge; and the book, Six Days in December: General George Washington’s and the Continental Army’s Encampment on Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills, December 12–19, 1777. A practicing attorney and higher education administrator, Vance has a BA from Howard University School of Communications and a JD from Georgetown University.  Read More Read Less