A Scrap of Revolutionary .t-c-'-r. ?T OF AN OLD SOL- -,-t ,i f- Hf O A TIT Truth From Robert Hen- rv and David Vance. , no-.v srive the statements of Col. m' V:f .re and Gen. Joseph McDow- I1'" .. riitinir the nrmu t r U. 1 IK :.e - !!.. U 1 i.v.i'.njctn fin us ii it'll ,(.fe;it of Col. Ferguson. This raent of Col. Vance on a sar- -evcre remain, ui .ui. ji. that "they" (meaning the pbcli) "'were a fierce and of chickens, and could havoc among egsrsj, if each oi , : , i , i; 1 v. 1 ru . i 'it'll with a stick.'' This elicit- .x ,.l0rc f.tenive reply and, Statement AhiV aii air unu u- consequences liuu. NkDowell and Col. jYance. I xf 1 ilC lCa?yuo ami x j s i xj. i t, i r r v . ii l - Vance ana Jiciowen maue , incuts. The General As em- vrth Carolina made an agree- V. v .;. ; thai OI 1 cuncsscc iu utu aiiu divisional line between the two .tlMl in the year IT'JV), the Mate of Carolina appointed Gen. Joseph ;'.UI. Col. David Vance and M. ...v,, Commissioners on the part of , Carolina,' who .appointed John ;(.r ain't myseif surveyors, with the ..,rv number . of chain ! bearers, yM atlu J)ac iv-nwi scuiaii iui uiai who aiet uud veat to the Waii'.-t'jp mountain, a spur ' r tne stone I'll', All trie Liic . . f uiuia nut lie latter. trotner uitl not ap- ommencenient. The compa v,,rt. a-iiiULT a great uuinoer oi ques rulative to Ferguson's defeat, and Aii.'th 'renuested that Vauce or )L Alv .v,'-;.'i 'rive theoi a connected ac ,,: tru.' Auole transaction from rirst it was agreed that Col. Vance ujVf that account. The Colonel ... ., i to oo so upon consulting with annointed tn tot- ' a. piuiecuon ana save tbc . ir.ir.; ctk. ,Ja?j v-fl!i tv Nail and Archibald Nail we're appointed tamers over the -Yellow moun tains to Shelby and were io be passim: continually; that they werie to recieve the news in the Turkey covje relative to Ferguson's movements; that' Joseph Dob son an-.. James Macey were Ito be bearers1 of libenewjfto Cieaveland and Herndon, and were to receive their news at the Montgomery place, afterwards Jos. Do son's place. Onl (Hp his brother, Robt.j Cleavelaijd, and Gide on Lewis, our pilot, to be ijews bearers I bet ween him and Shelby Thus the news went the rounds as fast as horses jcould carry their riders. After Coli C. McDowell had" thus arranged his busi ness he received news that Ferguson was at Gilbert Town. He then collected all the men that he could procure fiom Burke county, arid went to Shelby and Sevier who had engaged Col. Campbell, of Virginia, also to raise volunteers.. The orders given to the volunteers were to Sequip themselves! as quick ;as possible, iand have nothing to provides when they - - f were called on to. march, but to saddle march oh the shortest io couIU hot go sup could go with everv- thing they stood iii need of. fit was also announced to the volunteers, by the ohi cers, that a battle with Ferguson was de ' termined upon, and that they must rely Kipon a battle before thev returned home. The news went the rounds by the news carriers before mentioned, of erery thing 'i ;u v among the officers that Col. Herndon with Irs infantry could not overhaul Ferguson before he reached Ninty-Six. They began to count to see how many mounted men they could muster. Gra ham's 160 and- Chronicle's 20 men must equal 200 insteai of ISO Campbell told Chronicle that the lad he had with him should not carry the ammunition. Chro nicie replied that the lad was the son of old "Rugged and Tough," and that the powder cask was too well hooped to leak. The boy mentioned is Robt. Henry, our surveyor. They counted on and found their number to be between G00 and 700. but told the soldiers that the numbet. was 1,100 counting Williams' men. Or ders were then given for thoe horsemen who were unable from any canse, to take a severe forced march, to fall into the ranks of the infantry, and turn their horses oer to one of that body; several exchanges of this kind were made. At Gilbert Town oiders were given to kill some beeves for the men, and for them to be ready to march in a very short time; some of the men who were tardy got nothing to eat, the halt was so short. The line of march was' taken so as to cross Broad river at Poor's ford, below the mouth of Green river, thus taking a near cut on Ferguson's march to Ninety Six. The day and night was showery. We crossed lyerguson's trail in the dark, and proceeded to the Cow-pens. We came to ,a Tory's hou-e, pulled him out of bed, treating him roughly; asked him at what time Ferguson had passed that place, he said he had not passed at all, that happened in Ferguson's! camp until I that he had torch pine and we might their, horses and potice. Those w jpiitd th. se who y i i. .-.veil. uv pilot Gideon Lewis who w i- a ai.-ws .:ar'rier, and myself, on the vVi '.av that would prevent us from ,,: , . -'. -Awi with the line. Accordingly w - ' ii-iv happened when we were at ; oi tiie Roundabout oh. the Stone ;1K,iu aia. Oar bark camp was soon :; v a.i'i I'oi. Vance gave the account, , :.h the account of the battle of ountain. I was provided with separate from my surveyor's memoranda of particular 1P.O T. '. iorv. " i t' ; rp 'O . ,M.'t '.. Co news came that John Carson; had played a suple trick on Ferguson; that having saved almost all the Whig stock that had not been driven into the coves by Daniel Smith & Co., Ferguson began to suspect Caron of saving Whig stock;-' there beiiu a large quantity of Tory stock ranging about the large cane brakes where David Greenlee lives, and that a ia-ge party of Ferguson's men were riled jout to kill Whig stock, and they designing to go to that place and another party were going to the Montgomery place, where' Joseph Dobson lived, for the like purpose. Ca soh. went with the party to the latter place, without informing the other pai'ty going to Greenlee's that thei cattle rang ing there was the propeity of Tories then m 1 erguson S camp. ine parties each wentr on their business ana re turned to camp; those who had gone to Grt eniee'e boasted , that the had killed over 100 : head of 3, 4, 5 and 0 year old rebel steers. CarsOn observed that those cattle were the property of Brown, De ment and Johnston, who were then in i camp, whereupon ,!those men went and . . . ... . discovered that tne steersi tuiea were everyone their own, Thijs turned the Tories rather against Fergiison. Fergu son said that the Rebels hadutwitted him and that he was unable to $ff ect his pur pose there, and that he w:ould start back to Gilbert Town on a certain day. As soon as the words left Ferguson's mouth, the news' was on its passage Jto Cleveland and Shelby, it did not stop jday or night. The news was soon at its place of desti nation. Shelby", immediately directed i j of Gates' defeat mid Campbell and his men to meet him on a y;ivea day at atauga, ana fcevier to meet him and Campbeii on a given day ::.: taa? occurred, and commeuctd .j .:!;' when Col. Vance, who was an e.f:r:t rh'rk, said that as there was only -uy rvor, I Would notiiiave time to do it,' u;: i :p! would .give him my 'nook he w..-.;ld write it down for me as he was at ie.saie. - r ; ' C...- Vance says: "I have in some L-:t :v depen-.i upon mv memory. 1 1 tv:,; ',-:u: ww toi, oiieiov si reueat Av'i-i'r.u' the British at. Enoree. ;.a: McDowell had detached y ;.:.ii cvivr with a party to ro Ft.-ru-on was camped. This .t 1 the British and T.,-ri ;sat w ::f:i C i. C'harie-? MiDoweli re- ight it and see, and if we could rind the track of i eraruson s army we mio-ht o hang or do what we pleased with him, and if we did not rind such a sign he would expect milder treatment. Search was made but no sign of the enemy was found; we then camped and began to send men out to lind Ferguson's trail Chronicle proposed to send Enoch Gil mer on this duty, but it was objected to as he was unacquainted with the coun try, but Chouicle said that Gilmer could nnd our everything better than those ac quainted in the neighborhood, as he c ;uld act any character, could laujfh and cry in the same breath, anu act the foo so well as to make his own acquantances believe him 1 deranged; that he was a shrewd, cunning fellow and a stranger to fear, hence he was chosen amongst others for this duty. Gilmer went to a Tory's house on Ferguson's trail and told him that he wanted to join Fergu son, but had missed him, and wished to be put on the right track. The Tory told him that after Ferguson had crossed the river at Twittie's ford he had re ceived orders from Lord Cornwallis to go to Charlotte, N. C, that he had called in Tarleton and all his outposts, and was going to give Gates another thrashing, and! render North Carolini under British rule, as he had done South Carolina and Georgia, and would enter Virginia with a larger army than had ever been in America. Gilmer gave this account to the officers some time in the day; the march was then taken up for the Chero kee toid on Broad river. Nkrht came est informed him that she had been to Ferguson's camp that morning to carry him some chickens, that his camp was about three miles off, on a ridge between two branches where some deer hunters had had a camp last fall. Maj. Chronicle and Capt. Mattox stated that the camp referred to was theirs, and they knew the ground well. It was agreed that as they knew the ground the should plan the battle. They retired by themselves; and then reported that it was an excel lent place to surround Ferguson's army, and as the shooting would be up hill there would be no danger of destroying their own men; but doubted if we had men enough to surround them. It was instantly agreed by all the officers that we should attempt to surround our foes. They immediately began to arrange their men without stopping, assigning to each officer the part he should take in surrounding the hill. By the time this was done we were close to our enemy. Col. Wm. Graham and his men were the last to have their dutv assigned. Gra ham desired leave of absence, alledgir.g that he had received certain intelligence that his wife was dving of the colic I about sixteen miles oil. near Armstrong's ord on the South Fork. Campbell said to him that would be the gieaest in ducement for him to stay, as he could cairy the lews, and if we were success ful it would l e better than a dose of physic to his wife. Graham exclamed, oh, my dear, dear wife! shall I never see her asrain?" Campbell turned to Maj. Chronicle and in an angry tone of voice, said: "Shall Col. Graham have leave of absence?" Chronicle replied: "It is woman's business, let him go.' Campbell told Graham he might go. Graham said he must have an escort, whi ;b Chronicle assented to, and he chose Laiti DucLey. Dinkey said i.e would rather Le shot than go. Chronicle toid hi: a he must go; he sai 1 he "would .lather be shot on the spot, but if I must go, I must." Grauam and Duckey im mediately took to the woods and disap peared. Campbell then said to Chron icle: "As Grahain has left voa must take ! his pltce," turning to Col. ilambrite, asked him if he had any objections: he said it was his wish, as Chronicle was well acquainted with the ground. Where upon Chronicle called out, "come on my SPRING AND SUMMER 0 CLOTHING -FOR r Mbn, Boys and Ohildren ! We offer the lanrest variety in our lines to be - found in Asheville. Business Suits at $5 $7 $9 $IO $i'2, $15. Dress Suits at $10, $12, $15, $iS, $20, 825, S2S. Full Dress Suits at S 1 5 and upward. Boys' suits at $5, 8 7, $12, 8 1 5, all sizes. Extra Pants, several hundred pairs choice styles, at prices varying from Si to 5. All Sizes Hats The only Genuine Dunlap Hats in Asheville, in Straw and Derbys. and Straw Hats latest shapes, largest stock in the city, for men and boys. Dress Shirts and Underweai, embracing all the noyelties of this season and variety umsurpassed in any stock in the State. Neckwear and Hosiery, Suspenders, Belts. Sashes, E. &.V. Collars, Shirt Waists, the "Ne Plus Ultra" of all markets. Fd R to .1-; to retreat. .Gen. II was then Major, and helbv to :u:ow wnar was nest agreed thai we must make .ret round r -ertruson and . M'-P.-'well, carrying our rnaTely oa horseback and t distances on foot; alter listant-e found Col. C. Mc- ,.fr t- called a council !' at the sprihg on the bald glround in the Yellow mountain, at the side of -Bright' s path, all of which was done with great exactness, lie issued orders for Coli. Cleavelaud and Herndon to meet him on a given day on Silver creek in Burke county, and ordered Daniel Smith, I. McDowell, Lytle, Patton and those who had taken protection to meet him by a ins camp and was-re- Uert Town. We al- certain nisrht at "William South Fork boys," and took ue lead; the hill was surrounded in a few minutes and the battle of King's Mountain com menced. Our enemies outnumbered us two to one, se of course their lire was double that of ours. We killed of them 247; our loss was 143, agreeably to the account of Enoch Gilmer and Joseph Beaty, supposed to be the most accurate of any. Though they outnumbered us two to one, and had the choice of posi tion, we fought them killing almost twice as many as they did of us, and took more prisoners, than we had men to guard them. But we had not a coward to face the hill that day, they posted oil till within two minutes of the battie the last coward left. Now, friend Bob, I have written down mv narrative, as nearly as memory will permit, thinking theireading of it might on and our pilots missed their way as it j rill up a blank in your leisit e hours, re was dark and ' rinv, so that when we j fleeting upon the situation of the times VHITLOCK'S MTMI HOUSE', 48 South Main Street. I J. P. SAWTEIC. ?::XsIuent. :Na;ls, which j M v.. a army. trpovt in-t overtook him. and j was tne next night after the meeting on the Yellow mountain. hen the officers met on the Yellow inuni ain, it was at once agreed to send - Col.j ciias. McDow. ell with an express to Geni( Gates asking hi ji to furnish an experienced officer to lead them in the battle with Ferguson. As soon, as Chas. .-McDowell, with his f Catawba to execute 1 silver mounted Tom Sampson rifle, dis appeared, steering for thej path on the Lincoln Ridge, thearmy jlescended the mountain on Bright' s path and went to Wm. Nails that night, where they met Jos. McDpwed, Lytle, Daniel bmith and Patton, the men who hac. driven the Whi:r stock into the coveis under the eaves of the black mount jiin, and also those who had taken protection, when it was agreed that McDowell, Lytle and Smith should remain on the head of the river, as it was expected that the Indians would fall on the frontier as soon as f t e r j o i n in g w i t h C o i . Sbelbv and Sevier u:uv d' volunteers ould be 'eat Ferguson, stating that main, object was to kill the that he would be on tne ad river and then he would :td o . which would give time to 'tr.tf.ers over the mountains and and Wilkes counties. All the iud some of the privates were '. and agieed tbat.it was right to tr'ni to raise an army. It was . d that the prisoners be sent to : that .Cols. Shelby and Sevier with their men1, go to their came to the river hills it was near day light; it was then agieed that Gilmer should be sent to see if Ferguson had been apprised of our approach, and if ?o prevent him from aitacting us whilst in the river. Orders were given to protect the guns from the rain. Gilmer hadben gone for some time when his voice was heard in the hollow, singing Barney Linn, a favorite blackguard song of the i times; this was notice that ail was right. Orders were given that as the r ver was deep the largest horses should be kept on the upper side of the current, the or der was not obeyed, and it was remark able that no one was missing on the other bank. After passing the river it was agreed to send Gilmer ahead to make all the discoveries he cculd: off he went at a gallop. The officers kept ahead of the privates at a very slow pace, the men cursing and saying that if there was going to be a battle to let it be over, kc, !cc. All were very hungry, and whenever a corn held was come to the men soon stripped it, eating part of i the corn olf th.- coob, raw, and giving the rest to their horses. After goins: to which these recited facts refer. Your friend, I). .Vance. I to be continued next week. OTI XL CUXE, VicE-rnr T. J. E. KAN KIN, Cashiib. C A PIT AL Si 00,000.00. 1111? i Mi E1LIE ; '3 - a a k it BATTERY :-: PARK :-: BAffi. !rmr.aet a it't-ral Mnit.: VuinA.. r.nnn rciil i--r d'.-vouatv !. Iaxi taaIc UJCQ SAFE DEPOSIT. TUITION .:!() PEli TKR.M. Needy young men of talent and char acter will be uided with scholarships and loans. Besides the general courses of tudy, which oilers a large range of elective studies, there are courcesin law, medicine and engineering. For catalogue, &c. address the president, GEO. T. 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McDowell then ' ti'e.men on the head of Catawba :-"-t proposed that they who could " "ver the mountains should take ' '"" under Ferguson on his ad-'-.atul thereby save the Whig stock. ' ' Mith, afterwards Coh, Thos. i' diert Patton and J. McDowell " I'h'as-.mt, Gardens, absolutely re- Indians, and that those yho had taken protection should stay tq assist them It was .agreed that Joseph McDowell, after w;rds a General, should!) take twenty men antV follow Ferguson's trail, for fear of a surprise. At the head of Silver creek this body fell, in with a: party of Tories on their 'way! to jbin Ferguson, kiliina: some and puttidg the rest to uiiTht, returning to the army next morn imr. After spending the 'night at Nails the army marehed on to Silver creek, and at the place appointed met Cols. Cleaveland and Herndon; so exactly as scarcely to occasion a halt; proceeding to Cane creek of Broad river, met Major Billy Chronicle with twenty men, still onwards at Camp creek; Col. 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