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Like all the brigades at Jockey Hollow, the Marylanders faced shortages of supplies and provisions. In January 1780, Baron von Steuben, the army’s inspector general, observed that their clothing was in very bad order for want of mending and that shirts and shoes were greatly lacking, especially in the three regiments of the Second Brigade, where many of the men were wholly destitute of those articles.
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