Jockey Hollow: Where the Continental Army Wintered and Died

Continental soldiers who did not survive the encampment at Jockey Hollow are remembered nearby. Washington's army wintered here in seventeen seventy-nine and seventeen eighty, enduring conditions that soldiers later said were worse than Valley Forge. Snow buried the huts.

Rations disappeared. In January of seventeen eighty, the temperature dropped so severely that New York Harbor froze solid enough to walk across. Men died of cold, hunger, and disease faster than they could be replaced.

The soldiers who survived remembered Jockey Hollow as the low point of the war. The people of Morristown raised this monument to the men who died during the encampment, soldiers whose names were largely forgotten but whose sacrifice was as real as anyone who fired a shot.