About 600 feet northeast of the Tempe Wick Road, along the south and
east slopes of Fort Hill (No. 15), are the campsites occupied early in
1779-80 by the 1st and 2d Connecticut Brigades. The former, under Brig.
Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons, was composed of the 3d, 4th, 6th, and 8th
Connecticut Regiments, with a combined total enlistment, in December
1779, of 1,680 men. In the latter, under Brig. Gen. Jedediah Huntington,
were the 1st, 2d, 5th, and 7th Connecticut Regiments, with a
corresponding enlistment, at the same period, of 1,367 men. The official
uniform of all these troops was blue, faced with white; the buttons and
linings, white.
Both brigades left camp for detached duty “on the Lines” at Springfield
and Westfield early in February 1780. On returning to camp, about the
middle of May, they occupied the log huts vacated by the Maryland troops
on April 17 preceding (Nos. 13-14). It was there that the 4th and 8th
Connecticut Regiments rose in mutiny soon afterward (p. 18).
Some of the log huts built by the 1st Connecticut Brigade were occupied
by Pennsylvania troops early in the following winter, previous to the
mutiny which broke out on New Year’s Day 1781 (pp. 27-28).