About one-sixth of a mile southwest of the Picnic Area (No. 10), on the
same side of the Jockey Hollow Road and parallel to it, is the campsite
occupied in 1779-80 by the 1st Maryland Brigade under Brig. Gen. William
Smallwood. In this brigade were the 1st, 3d, 5th, and 7th Maryland
Regiments, with a combined total enlistment, in December 1779, of 1,416
men. The official uniform of these troops was blue, faced with red; the
buttons and linings, white. About the middle of May 1780, following the
departure of the 1st Maryland Brigade on April 17 preceding, soldiers of
the Connecticut Line moved into the log huts erected on this site
(p. 41).