Maryland 400

The 115th Infantry claims lineage back to the earliest militia units formed to protect the frontier of western Maryland.

Later, Maryland militia companies, armed with older, surplus British muskets and bayonets, were formed and sent north to support Washington in New York City.

[4] Stirling and Gist led the Marylanders in two attacks against the British who were in fixed positions in and in front of the Vechte-Cortelyou House.

[6][3] Washington, watching from a redoubt on nearby Cobble Hill (intersection of today's Court Street and Atlantic Avenue), was to have said, "Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose!".

[7][8] The 256 dead troops of the Maryland 400 were buried by the British in a mass grave on a hillock on farmer Adrian Van Brunt's land on the outskirts of the marsh.

[14] However, in 1957, the U.S. National Park Service did a historical site survey and a report to congress identified a "plaque commemorating what was thought to be a mass grave on Third Avenue between Seventh and Eighth Streets."

[15] In 1998, the Archaeological Research Center at Brooklyn College was called in by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to examine whether the Marylanders might be buried beneath the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Third Avenue.

Again in 2008, Third Avenue between Seventh and Eighth Street was visited by archaeologist Dr. Joan E. Geismar in conjunction with the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.

[citation needed] The Maryland Society of the Sons of the Revolution posted an update, Sept 6, 2019 by James Schmitt, where they note that there was no mass burial site.

An American soldier noted that “our people who have come in say [Brooklyn’s] fields and woods are covered with dead bodies” a few days following the battle."

[citation needed] The Maryland Monument is located in Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, New York City, on the slopes of Lookout Hill.

It contains a 12-foot polished granite Corinthian pillar with a marble orb on top and backed by a semicircular stone wall.

The west face of the marble pedestal has another inscription, which is a comment attributed to Washington as he watched the Marylanders hurl themselves at the enemy.

U.S. troops, patriotic societies, the 14th Regiment of the New York State National Guard, and members of the Grand Army of the Republic participated in the unveiling ceremony.

[22] Restoring it involved cleaning and fixing broken, stained and defaced pieces of marble and granite, replacing missing brass letters and refurbishing rusted parts of the iron fence.

"[28][29] In 1897 a plaque was placed close to the actual location of the graves, directly in front of the Wildhack Coal Yard.