About three-tenths of a mile southwest of the Picnic Area (No. 10),
paralleling the opposite side of the Jockey Hollow Road, is the campsite
occupied in 1779-80 by the 2d Maryland Brigade under Brig. Gen. Mordecai
Gist. In this brigade were the 2d, 4th, and 6th Maryland Regiments, and
Hall’s Delaware Regiment, with a combined total enlistment, in December
1779, of 1,497 men. The official uniform of these troops was the same as
that of the 1st Maryland Brigade. About the middle of May 1780,
following the departure of the 2d Maryland Brigade on April 17
preceding, soldiers of the Connecticut Line moved into the log huts
erected on this site (p. 41).