Immediately adjacent to the Army Burying Ground (No. 18), visitors may
see a log structure of the type used for hospital purposes while the
Continental Army lay encamped in Jockey Hollow. This building was
reconstructed by the National Park Service from a description and plans
prepared by Dr. James Tilton, Hospital Physician in 1779-80, and later
Physician and Surgeon General, United States Army.
NOS. 20-21. FIRST AND SECOND PENNSYLVANIA BRIGADE CAMPS, 1779-80, AND
RECONSTRUCTED OFFICERS’ HUT.
About 400 feet east of the reconstructed Army Hospital Hut (No. 19), on
the west slope of Sugar Loaf Hill, and cutting diagonally across the
Grand Parade Road, are the campsites occupied in 1779-80 by the
Pennsylvania Division commanded that winter by Maj. Gen. Arthur St.
Clair. In this division were the 1st and 2d Pennsylvania Brigades. The
former, under Brig. Gen. William Irvine, was composed of the 1st, 2d,
7th, and 10th Pennsylvania Regiments, with a combined total enlistment,
in December 1779, of 1,253 men. In the latter, under Col. Francis
Johnston, were the 3d, 5th, 6th, and 9th Pennsylvania Regiments, with a
corresponding enlistment, at the same period, of 1,050 men. The official
uniform of all these troops was blue, faced with red; the buttons and
linings, white.
On the First Pennsylvania Brigade campsite may be seen a reconstruction,
by the National Park Service, of the type of log hut used as quarters by
officers of the Continental Army in 1779-80 (p. 16).
[Illustration: _Reconstructed Army Hospital Hut._]