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Girard College.
See Girard, Stephen.
Mordecai Gist.
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Gist, Mordecai 1743-1792
Military officer; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1743; was captain of the first troops raised in Maryland at the breaking out of the Revolution; was made major of Smallwood's regiment in 1776; and commanded it at the battle of Long Island.
Promoted to colonel in 1777, and brigadier-general early in 1779, he did good service throughout the war, saving the remnant of the army after Gates's defeat, and being present at the surrender of Cornwallis.
He died in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 2, 1792.
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)