In 1777, Colonel Daniel Morgan's Corps camped here and covered a road from which the British might attack. While most soldiers used muskets rather than rifles, in August General George Washington had sent 400 frontier riflemen north to help, and a new light infantry unit of New Englanders was formed to fight alongside them. Native Americans worked with Morgan's Corps as scouts. These Virginians and Pennsylvanians, well acquainted with the use of rifles and that mode of fighting, were expert marksmen, and only the most able, active, spirited men were chosen to serve in Major Dearborn's Light Infantry Corps.