certain regiments at certain times to be inoculated. he didn t want his entire army sick with smallpox so small portions were designated to receive the virus and hopefully when they got well the next regiment would be inoculated and so on. jon: historian bill styple says there is evidence, accounts of colonial families that this type of treatment took place nearby, colonists who allowed afflicted troops to receive treatment in their homes. soldiers suffering from the dreaded smallpox. one such home till stands today on the edge of what styple believes was washington s revolutionary war encampment. we were invited into take a look. it was built approximately 1770. this is in the basement. the soldiers suffering from smallpox were brought here and suffered here while the families live upstairs. jon: this was the treatment room where you and i are where you can barely stand up?