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' J - :. l . -.1- : . . -; . . J ; ' ;. ' ' ! 1-' -r ' - .- ' ' - ; - -' ... ' - r. .' . . . : m ; . ,.:;v , '.. j ' : ;f,f . - - - . ; - ' . ' ! . : . ..-.I'. l-i : '... i. .. :i . ,1 I Mi ! .- " - - - - - - J - . ' i -.". . - . I I I i .i. - t ' . : i T- !. ( A Volume L ; chapel hill gazette j JAMES M. HENDERSON, cinxoit v pnoiniKTon. AT TWO rMTtU.AR- TER ANNUM, INVA RIABLY I IN ADVANCE- ADVKsnK.VEXTS will Insrte.lat one Dollar per,iuf-of 14 Hu. fvr Ue first inertion, aBl TVentj-five cnts ier square for each tileqcnt insertion, Front the Cntversily EnswiiBe. The Tory XVXassacre. i , J - ' PVLETS DEFEAT, 1781. Tnrv Faycjltcvilltf. Observer of tlio 12lh ult-, fills one of its 7lroaVI columns w ith nn account of "The Tory MpLcre ' by Jiichard Kvev-J J -ti I I I -t i "....II 1. 1 ClI, WlilCU fiviib io fan iui juihc notice at car hands. t 1 The wri er opens with the remai'k that two months 'ago he made a toiir of' tl) Southern States, " and tarried a tshile at-the little village of llilIsbrough j' ' 4 a sliOrt tlis tance " frbra which in his memor able retyejit acmss North Carol iti a ' U February, 1781, the iaggcd but' jrallant .afmr of General Greene ruarv, t.afnn forded the river Haw 'Xot far fiom HillJl'orough wo were shown . the seen. of a terrible massacre of tories bv he troopers of Iees Le "ion." Hillsborough, our readers need scarcely be informed, is on the river Knojjin the County of Orange, not nearer than eighteen miles to tlje.ford of Haw river,, .crossed by Pickens alid Lee in pursuit of TarU toni General Greene, in his rapid ryircat,tdH not cross tlu? river at . alL The 'scene of Pyle's discomfit ure is in. f lie ' vicinity of Graham, in the Count- of Alamance, distant. . Mnl Tviity-aTrflTitre3rrom Hills borough, 'j , " I The writer is not more precise and accnnite in the statement of the number and character of the' Amer- ieati forces who participated in the combat tftaii in his designation" of of the battlefield. As a preliminary- tn, tK'o morementDtVlhe whole army, Greene kent ColtlIeiiryLec with his legion of eavahy. and two companiels of Maryland militia . to harrass thojUritish force, and dis perse the bands of tories .which were organizing throughout " the, arolinas. 1 - j ' Col. iee had formed a squadron of eavalfyj i uniformed and , armed precisclVj after the fashion of Tarl tohTs celebrated corps and no man in the American serv ice was niorc dreaded! by , 'the foe than Legion llarry. j 3Ir. Everett having thus stated the nuiiiber and charactetfTof our forces, proceeds with an interesting ! but notj jvery " accurate account of the circumstances under which the -tories wereentrapped and vanquish ed. Tliereis'no intimation, h'oy ;ever, that General Pickens, 'at the head of thirty or forty gallant men' I from Georgia and South Carolina, "and more than six hundred militia from Metkleuburg and Rowan were' pres.cn And quite as conspicuous In the fray! as the Virginia troops. 'Accidental circumstances to which we fee) it liberty to refer, in con pe!ction jwith .this narrative, have .renderjed us peculiarly sensitive to. the injustice done by this writer i Lee ras a brave man, a poiisneu I gcntldman, a skilful soldier, and an I clegaijt writer. The union of his t arid Packens' legion presented an j array of leadep and men, probably no where equalled ..by the . same j .numlierin any revolutionary bat- j t I 1 ? 4lrv fiA il'littn j pursued when, .the fortune of war '.. placed Pj'lc within their power, and j lost them "Tarlton, " was worthy of j ttheirseol. "We think we are fully i sustaaned, however, by the evidence I 'before us, in the ' opinion tliat -man f for inan Pickdns and his' legion were! more than equal to"thc troop- 'o'r led bv cither Lee orfTarlton. "In! tjio autumn of 1832 wc gpent. - fewkavfttJLhe bonso.of David, Me-bane, nine ne, nine milea eat ot llills-trh.- JTe died an octogenarian, f boron fears thereafter, pntho plan- a few tfttioi where he was lorn. He pointed out tho road around the farm which was taken by Pickens and Lee in pursuit of Tarlton, a short time before the-encountered Pylc, described minutely''. Sthe ap pearance, of the tioops as tliey pressed on.in their harried march, and especially of Col. ; Polk who particularly attracted his attention. A few weeks after this interview, we ppent a day with General' Gra ham, and about thc.samo time, held repeated conversation with Col. Polk in relation to revolutionary events, and especially with refer ence to Pyle's defeat. Col. Polk entered the revolution ary army in 1777. . lie was in the battles of Brandywihe and Ger mantown, and was with Gen. Xasli when the thigh of. the latter was crushed by a cannon ball. lie had two molar teeth extracted by a musket ball, and amid the wounded and dying, was the immediate wit ness of the agonies endured by Xash during the terrible nirht . which, succeeded the battle.! : He was the aid of Gen. Davidson, and at his side when; be fell beneath the riflo of the tory Hager jit Cowan's Ford. At Kutaw, on tlo 8th Sep tember, 1781, while in raid pursuit" of a tory officer, the latter sudden ly wheeled and planted a rifle ball in his left shoulder which disabled him for life; The arm was almost; seveivd from the bod v, -and vet so little did'it affect the 'appearance of. the. erect and stalwart soldier, that it was never, until domiciled with 4iim,jdnring a visit to "the Univer sity in; 18-32, wjieu we found him unable, to put on his coat without assistanre,-tliat any .suspicion1 was entvrtaiued of tho ' extent andise-' verity of the wound. lie was con- A fiayd for several j'nTfth after the, battle, anil when ho rose from Ins bed, his hair l which ,' he wore long ru a.cue according to the fashion of the times, forme! a mat, tin. which, to ue his own language, " every hair stood for itself" It became necessary to remove it, 'ana jlnc young woman who personated 'the barber on the occasion, dipped'it off with her scissors in a solid fleece. Ltijind Kggleston who were vith hi tn afPyle's defeat, fought with him at Kutaw.; buftw.ono of the trying scenes he had witnessed, seemed to affect him so. deeply as the Terrible carnage of the deluded and unre- sisting tories under Pyle. Graham and Polk, never fought alone, and thejr followers were Mecklenburg men. Their own blood flowed in copious streams, and in every battle-field tlneir 'swords drank blood., I1 . It is a little remarkable that while this narrative of Mr. Everett's seems destined to a wide circulation in North Carolina, the graphic and authentic account by General Gra ham which appeared in thi Maga zine in May, 1 850, -found its, way into the North Carolina Argus and one of the Salisbury papers, and Ave believe, no others. ' . The" following-letters from Judge Murpji- to Gen. --Graham,, which appeared in this Magazine in De cember; 1854, and Ihe.jletter from Gen. Graham to JudgV 3Iurphy.in tho Xo. of the preceding moith, were never copied by any of -our newspaper editors ; and as that ol ume of our Magazine is nearly out of print, .we hare determined to re produce them in our own pages, with the hoje, peradventure, they may yet find favor else wncre. II AAV PlVKh, ") uly 20th, 1821. j Df.Au General: Oh 'yesterday I received your letter - of the 14th iiret. I must beg your pardon for not before acknOAvIedging the re ceipt of the packet directed to me at Salisbury. A: continued series of afflictions in my family, added to ; a great pressure of business, had Pcrceiriug tlie rarpriso which the. bxteut of his wound occsiont-J, ho rt-auu-knl that 'when the firat At of CongTvss wag posset) allowing; petiiiiuus to w6undeJ and inrsUid anldirpi, Jmlge Sotgrsave pro . poaed to Bake out a cvrtincat for Uiiu, ' The Colonel ' dcelfned, with the intimatioa that thm was no JudV4 in the State less an invalid thua he.- ' Jf" At the time of bin death, O 'Ion el Polk waA1''t surriring field officer or tho Xorth Carol'0- . Judge SetRreares was ona of tU aids f Oaiwfll Uttlf of Camden.. - 1 ' ' ' CHAPEL HILL, withdrawn my mind until lately from the subject of your communi cation. They noAV rengage my at tention almost exclusive, and will continue to do so, for eight or ten i - i days. . ;I entreat . you to continue your narrative, and give to it all the detail your' memory will enable you to give; and notwithstanding vo'u have ! filled 20 sheets, fill 20 more. I am in correspondence with scA-ci al gentlemen on ,these subjects, as well as other parts of the histo- try of Xorth Carolina; buit from none have Lreccivcd communications so - . ! ..circumstantial, connected, and in-' iteresting as from 3-ou.' I Avisli you to progress through the IJevolution-a-y Avar, and I will subjnit to voti heal lor a lurthcr '.--narrative, em-' bracing thepromincn't points of bur history since 1783. . ' lour letter to C6I. Conner, first- suggested to ino the plan of a Avork, which jl will execute if I live. It is a work on the history, .soil, cli mate, legislation, civil Institutions, literature,' &.c, of this State, Soon after reading your letter, I turned ' i . f , i -mv attention tt the subject, in the i . 1 fl'AV hburs which I could snatch. ' j from buiness and I whs surprised to find what. -abundant materials, could, Avith c-arefand diligence,, be collected ; materials Avjiich, if well disjosed, Avould furnish matter for one oftho most interesting works, that has been puKJshedin this conn-. try. Ve want-fuich aiAvork. . VTe nei their knOAv ourselves!,'' nor are Ave knowiito1 others. uch a work; well exc ccuted, would add A'ery much in u. 1J. i, and J n on ii f to outstanding in "the; Union yfnake bur State respectable in OAvn eve. Amidst the cares and anxieties which' surround me, I can.; not-HwtM-fsh rt borier that I'Vould dc more than mere! v guide the labour i t " ' ' - - -i . of some man who Avoiild take up the Avork jafter me, and prosecute it to nerfect ion. I love Xorth Ca ro- 1 '-."" i . lina, jnid love. her (he more, because so much injustice, has een done to Lor. We want prid.el' . We want independence. We Avhnt magnan imity KnOAving notliing of our selves, we. have nothing in our Ids- , tory io .'which". Ave can turn with" feelinW of conscious pride. We knoAv" nothing of our State, and caie nothing about it.. t ! ; ; ' - It adds to one's, mortification on "nhis subject, that the printers of this State! are so little minded, that one Avilf hot copy from another any ar ticle j of public interest,' Avhich is communicated. If papers were sent for publication to Xew York, thejj would be published from the Xew York papers in all the papers of this State; yet, if sent to Raleigh, llills boroj, Salisbury, tfcc.j they will be found in only that paper to Avhich , they! are sent. 'The editors at Fay-, etteyillo form an honorable oxcep- - tionj They search out- and give place to evcryl King they can find resivectinXorth Carolina a man cant write" for every, j paper, and no 'one paper has a general circulation much more would! bo.AAritten, if all the papers wouldjgive it public it A', because more information would be thereby distributed through the community.' We Avhnt some great : stimulus foput us 7in motionand: induce us to Avaive little jealousies and combine. in' one jgeneral march t . ' i . : -t to our great purpose. j , The events of the years 1730 and 178.1, Avill fill a large joctavo volume, andI will exert myself to complete it timing the ensuing winter. Yo'i 'have entered upon .the. subject wth more zeal than any other 'man, and of your labors. irnrlr as' first I beg; a continuance Extracts from the written, Avithout cbrr,et'tions, be'pubiishetl in thvjlecorder. will Idi- reeted thre paper Aj be sent to you, and I am-sorry the! account of . the r...rt,,' has not reachea . IwilKret aWpcr "'."'--J liapo containing the remarks foil LI history of Korth Carotoar" yTiiis was the nrsi puu v uaW last. Have you reemjou me account " of the first Bevolutionary hrements T. xne prmier mauo a mistake arfti "said, 1 N C, SATURDAY, NOVEBIBER StatesSl instead of in 'thisS'tate.,? j'his was in March.; ; 1 rill publish another paper shortly- ; It would give me great pleasure to see you, and I bope yotj will come to Salisbury. In the i&eantime prevail on your brother o lend his aid to the work, and d;r. -f "up an account of the ex peditionlj in Avhich he took a part, ' and frbijrhich ; you. were absent. I hope providence will sjxire yoifir life " till something can.be done fibr the honor and g or of Xorth Car- olizia." Yours trul', A. D. MURPIIEY. Ge Jos. Graham Kequest your brother to give j a minute detail of! Ilutherford's caih- paign against Ihe ' Cherokecs, in 1770. The number of troops'?-' tue rcnuezA'ous ; tne causes .01 tne wait Avith the Cherokees ; the inarch f -Rutherford ; the preparations of the Cherokees ; their ohiefsnames, and characters ; th erf placcbf abode; .Operations of the army; force of the Cherokee's; route of the army iver the mountains : Cherokee 1 ' ' i . .;.' toAvns taken and burnt; anecdotes of the-'campaign'; the treaty ;-the 'omniissroricis,' both on the part of the Indian sland the Avhites for mak ing the treaty; miscellaneous par ticulars; return of the troops ; their j, being disbanded f Avhere and when; ioav paiu, ana noAV mucn, Ac.; also, similar account of the camnai'm inuer LasAveii in 1 t ; request lum to go jnto every detail. A. D M. Wef have noAV the pleasure. of pre- Sentinff in the subjoined letter,: to jhejlftto ?udge Murphey, a corree,. -iO?ynoiTnissvenien '. iave fouud AJ place iii history,' in : relation to ! Wents 'which occurred ivithin bur borders, during thcyne-, norable invasions ot Lord Cornwall-.; is, in 1780-'81. . : j- The "facts that the troops which under gained so much distinction,) the command of General Pickens, kvere from Xorth Carolinay Jand nnainh from Mecklenburg.ahd the adjoining courftie's, had until yerj' ' rccenth-, Itlc-e the Mecklenburg Dec- . lation, -escaped the attention of oiif best informed writers. For t4ie preservation oT thi and other -in--tercstin events in oui-revc'lution-arv histrA", Ave arc-indebted, ciitire ly to the a re ful pen of Gen cij-al Gra ham. Fr.a detailed account of the leading beidents Ayhic-b'mark tho; history of .his long, ' eventful, and useful lif,'our readers may turn to the 2d vl. of Wheeler's Historical Sketchea p. 282. 1 Vesuvius Fuuxact:, ) -20tflof Decembery 1827 -1 a . e IXeak liu : Soine time past, 1 for-. warded jbu certain sketcnes rela tive to' ourrenccs in the Itevolia tjonary var in the Western part of Xortli Carolina. I havo since perused ihnson'tj,! History- of the life of Gji. Greene, and str ctures on it, bv ee, Jr.y- and Avoiild beg leave to orrect some errors into wliich tjfiehave fallen. : I . r 1. It istated, not only by these HistoriaDvL hut by most others, that after Lorl Corn Avallis arrived in Charlottehc ' attempted marching to, Salisblry: ' Tarleton's Region, and a b& tali on of infanty, after they ld dislodged Cob' DaAies com-J mlm jiv tiKiiij pursued six or gcnrriHi'os, to, ; Sassafras fields, ; turned tne same evening.f . Alter this, no part of tho British army 3 Avent tAVO miles. $x' the Salisbury road, v.ntil - th5y retreated from. Charlottf, 'upon hearing of the dis aster at ving's Mountain. ; . 2. it,-i stated, by the historians genera'll that about, and on, the first of F bruary, 1781, the Catawba river Aval sAVolen,, and that this was ; thoreasfki, why Lord Cornwallis j did not pursue Gen. "Morgan more closely; f The statement is errone ous. Dii-ing the' three dnys imme diately Receding the 1st of Feb- ruaryniy command of cavalry or portions of it, crossed I the river at i different' fords -J and it-was not ReTolitlotiary HI5N, 6, 10S- 2lj 1857, flusher of water than is usual at ," that season of the year. until the rain, which fell, bn the evening of the first of February. Tjiis, did occasion a rise in the Yradkin,Avhich , intercepted the British after Greeue's , army had passed, on the third of and cpiitra-1 given, as to February. : .'. 3. Much is stated, dictory a-Qcounts are the part Gen. Pic ken's of S.-C. act- ed, in the campaign The facts are these : After the retreat from Cow an's Ford, on tile 1st of. February, Qcn. Pickens Avith. flebr six Sqiith Carolina refugees! was in the rout; of our troopSjXorth 'Carolina' Mi litia, on thex.ame r'day; .by' Jlarl ton s';:. Cavalry at Torreiice's Tavein,'six miles."eastAvard of the riA'cr. (rcn. DirA;idson, the ommander of this force had : fallen, and there avoi-c doubts and disputes among the field officers, as to t .'lib- should succeed him; In this joncjitipn Of jaffairs, ' v Avhile my caA-aJp were beyond the Shallow Ford of 1 he Yadkim hang- of the, enemy,' it Jreed by the field: Gen. Pickens with- ing on the rear was mutually officers to in-es the command of !DjaAvidson's tr'oousJ- ;x or seven liu naiva men. lms Avas about tne litu ot February,' and the South1 Carolina refugees might then 'amount to tAvbnty 0r thirty 'mien.', jaijics Jack- son 01 me treorg r . i s-i . 1 i 1 T ' a line) a Lieut en - ant, Avas apponitfc d Brigade Major, a member of Con : lie has since been gress and Go'vvjrijior of that State. After this organisation, the Brigade proceeded, cross Fordof theTadk ng the Sluilip av itn,. through Salem, t o 'G ni lford. Cov r House; ' fferc i n telligence Avas received of the more-.' .ments'of the eneniA- to Hillsboro ..... I - " ' !( . '5! !-.-.. .1 ' ami Ave took that direction, more i, eondejised and japtiouathan 1kto. Hitherto, the march had been reg ulated by, detat hi nents for the con venience of prop iring subsistence. . ArriA-ed at s bill, on Back or -. Stony Creek, son e twelve or fifteen miles from ' Hills oro',' in the; eve ning of the 17tlJ of Feb., shortly after avo had ene imped,, the Briga dier Major gavb orders that Capt. Graham phouldjf 1 iriiish tAteiity dra goons, , bnd Captain? Simmorfs, of PoAvan a like n Amber of riflemen. As soon as these officers report ed tneir quotas in p-eadinesF, General . Pickens himself! 1, Came and gave orders, as follows,- these tAVO ofiic viz Y"ou av'i iroceed 1oavu the roadtoAvards Iffillsboro' ;. AV.ith the greatest caiitipn and 'circumspec tion. If you find any detachment of the enemy mi t, inferior to your 1. - If you discover own, attack thei adargerlpartA Jieyond Supporting' distance from th main army, anl yOu tan keep urseh-es concealed, give me notici, and I will come or .send an additional force to assist you. But if ;:ou aseortain 'you are discovered by a largeHparty of the enemy return immediately. J11 any event, return carl in ihe morning: 1 for-they will then hear of you from the inhabitan ts 01 the country. 11 this, place, yon will up- the. AAest side1 of I move from find my trail this creek and may join mejby 10. O'clock to-mbrroAy." .-There, Ayere four or five volunteers Avho Avent With the parly besides those order- ed; but none of them AA-cre present Avheii the qrdeis ! Ave re Among' others ; I - rcc6llc.et-,fla.ir (a con?ncnt;d' oili- Micaj nh. . JjC av! w cervwlrp.-waS- ;iti o Mr clays at- terwanVatDiek'v s,)andhisbioth er Joel.i though of superior, rank, neithei Major Lewis nor any other, assum ed any command over the detachme nt, or the officers who had received the ; General's orders. The party set put ; between sunset and dark. After proceeding several miles on the '. Iillsborough road, and when it was fully dark, met Uobert Fosset, (usually called, as I. under-'... stood, mad Bob, and another per son, whose nanio is not remember-; ed. They yere direct from Hills borough, and gave us tho jirf?t in formation of ia .picket at Hart's Mill, supposed to ..be about thirty, in number. We determined to at tack them at light in the morning. II-- ' Rvolarionary Hiat. N..C 1S2.! See also, Lees Mara, and Loaaing for the error, here correct!, . Gen.. Pickens certainly knoAV noth ing of this picket being at the mill when iie detaichedr ls, although it ; is otherAvise etated jjEy Johnson.--.FossetJat first' llioiight aa-o 'wero a party bf thq enemy.i1 Wc compell ed bin to be-bur pilot, j If he is yet living, I w0i)dbeg leave to refer , you to him for ' subsequent even't. In thejndrning; Avhen avo approacli- eVl the, picket, their sentry fired'; and a . sergeant and file bf men came ' iiiimec; iately to his support. Sim- .mbns and hisi5iflemQn dismounting - - r, i - and tieing their horses, the sergeant '; and party h4d, in the direction of the noise, fr 'they could not see us. Major Lewis'myself and six others 'crossed into jthe road i leading to wards Mebanp's and charged doAvu this rdad after the iff sergeant and who 'ran, until A;e came sight bf the picket. - 3Iajor "within LeAvisi men suggestqu to me. tne au- vantage the riflemen miglit haAe, by passing to the right, under cover ' of thej hill, until they should be masked by sbme oit buidihgs, (I think a stable and smithshop.) We 'instantly returned and .give Papt. Simmons hisi instructions and the -eavalrjy moAred off to hei left, through: an old field, iabove yherelbiiildings haA"e since been eret'edi in order toj attract the attention1 and fire of the 1 enemy, until, 'the riflemen should gain their destinedposition. The jlan rlucceedetl as we expected.-" Owing to tlie great ;distance, the caA'aljy sustjained bp -ddmago from the--enemy's fire ; a'id as soon as the riflemen, at the distance of onh fifty Or sixty yards, in their con cealed position, had discharged their ' pieces at. tlje picket, the caA'alry charged,-anil the wfrjojle, consisting of tAAfenty-seA'en men, Avero instant dy kiljled oitiken.: :.J:.r t ;''. ,y :Xow Johnson ' States,;! that this;' partvf Avas tender i the command of : Col. fugh "iPCjall, l)fiouth Caro- lina, -and AA'a 3 of these who -'had .been! with jiinr at tlie! (j'OAvpenS; Somej Iavo cjr Aire;) voliuu'eefs were along, besidtis the Lewiseslas! aboVc men tioned: -If jCoL M'all -was onfc of them, if-is: bot remembered by me and others-vho wejre.-!preisent,.and of Avlibm I liaA'e made inquiry, since tlie appeararnce of this statement. But i ' ho -was present certain he had.no part, either, in planning, or ill the executionj; of tlie capture i of tho picket referie(l. to. Xor did we ( nsult respecting it Avith any other peisbn, except Maj. LpAvis, (avIio Avas ajreal soldier-) His eou'b-, selsiWere deferred ito by us, knoA -- ing,l.s. Ave (did, his past service and ; experience1. But Captain Simmons j and myself gave, the orders ' and! felt he whole responsibility. If! M'G'all wais along, he Avas.no more. than a spectator. . Several, yet liv- ill g,1 can vouch for Jthis. When the Brigade Ayas organized Avest of the Yadkin, ho officer! from the' South,, were recognized but General Pick- ens i nd Major Jijckson. For Ave had over our proportion ot field ofi ficcrs from Xorth Carolina, and did'i t need them, j When or par ty and prisoners iarriv'ed i'i camj), the Brigade immetiiafcly- moyeii' nearly a Xorth course teji-''00 miles, and halted-fToWe' Jlouj. mid after-. ?1 witli,hih f(JTiaVin-g left a strong guard i'n tie rear.' -In half an hour, there. man from ft avus in alarm by; a 10 guard, avIio reported Tarlet'on Avas "coming. It being too late to re- treat , a j disposition, was made for batt men e by lining the fences with , and making i gaps a suitable places for cavalryi to movcf as cir cumktaneesmight require. sPy the tube these arrangements were made - a part of the. rear guard and Col. Lee's legion .'hovel jn-.sight.- Lee had com 3 upon, bur '. frail a "feAV miles bacj-, and avo Avcre mQst agreeably disa ipointed in grpeting him instead . of Tarleton. -. . f; '::' J1 -,' f". ' '' if - i- I' ' p ' I - !' " '" . : s -.;;T ami confident! that this Avas the firsti iatlervieAv f between Leo and . Pickens,! during the campaign, and , my impression - alAvays: has been, , ; that previously to this time neither -l H " -X'' ; f I - H -:V-'' " -' '' . '. Mf(jor Lewis was of Surry County, and a neat pon- . ncxioli of the hito GoTertior Jesse Franklin, who was arai(ttia io this campaign. lli- giavp, though irtg- l x W, is BtiU recoguiedi on Dickey'i planUtioB, ut AlWWiuW.. J il-l ! . - . Number 31 ! General Greene por Colonel Loo kneAv any thing about where Pick ens was, or Avhatj Avas his force I ' nor did Gen; Pickens know tluit any part of Greece's command had-re-crossed lhfo Dan. ' j ,4. As. I antjcipjatcd in the intro duction to the sketches I furnished youi, the historians of that.Vdr have greatly failed to do justice to ' j the troops of Xofth Carolina. For" : Example, CA-crytljing that w;a8 done J j ; 1 by General Sumfjcr's force at Hang- ! f-'- ing-Kock, Ilocky Mount, while he commanded ' Xorth Carolinians 1 fa 1 780, and-by that of Pickens, while ; he commanded .J)avidson 8 Brigade, in 1781 as above related, is placed to the credit'of South Chro Una' from the circ ;imstances of thoso tAvo Generals conjimanding. Judgo Johnson even states' that at the bat tle of Cowpchs, jf ajor Joe Mc'Doav ell and his command from Burko county in this Sjtate AAbre: from S. Carolina. "' .' '-, ' ! J;, -i-,': J : 5. Col.. Lee Jtaving written; his Momotrs upAvardsl of thirty years, j after the transajciona ho - relates, ' has omitted to mjution tnjvny things, I and of others he must have forgot- t i (..- - i ten the circumstabjees though upon thewJiole, he is Impro correct as far as I had ; a pefsonalj knoAvJcdgo, than any other historian I. ha-o read. You may recollect' that in passes, -.unnoticed Clapp'tJ Mill, al- his memoirs hq the skirmish a though ho had command qC tho party engaged, liams calls iti"t Col. OtiioWil- ib 'skirmish-on tho- Alamance,", and says avo had bat three killed. Oik tho day after the . ! action, Pickens and Loo detached ' me jvith a party w thcbattlcground- and' I got. tho in labitants to bury v ei gll t of .our inch; ("all militia, and tAvoj oKiiiy OAyn Company.) :' L-hl, leitvp to ivfer you to Avhat I.havi ' Avitt en- before oji this subject. ' G. Johnson's listory is the only , one I liaA-e'seen, 'which notices! tho fact that, On thb second night after " the affair at Clapp's Millj 'on Ala-: mahce, a detiichinciit of British cav airy fell in with a party" of Tories on their mareh;io join the British, and that mistaking, each Other for -!..- 1 , I ' ' ' adversaries, a timber of theTpriejL Avcre killed or AApundcj, beforo tliO;j 1 mistake ?Avas klsscovered. But ho appears to kiunv nothing ot our party teazing the British in the af ternoon : and at -.dispersing their night charging and., patrol, andcantur- ing its, commander .ahd'that these Avero the reasons atIiv a large body of horse Av-re dispatched up! tho Salisbuiy road, which met the Tories j - - -1 1 h ' -s . - and occasioned tlie mishap ho men- ; ' tions; This von vill find in,' tho 1 sketches. ' J . ''' , '; k ' 7- Leb states that at PyleV: dc- fcat,itlie action . Avas commenced , ".by. the1' firing ojf the Tories on tho . ; Militia, in his rear. Whereas,! tho ,' fact was, that !I riding in front.of . the Militia dragoons, near to Capt. kggleston AvlroT brought up' Leo's rear, at the ' distance of foty or , 4tyyards, pointed out to jiimj tho strip of red cloth ;V tho liatii of - Pyles' men, asl tho mark of Tories, ; Fgglcston aiitroJ fo doubt this. until he came 'jodrly oiAposite tath-r Cltu 01 t'1 wiiun naing up -to i- man on their left, p who p-, pearcd as an officer, ho inquired, " Who .do you1 belong to V Tho ansAver;AATas promptly given, 'To. King Georgo,". upon AA idch Figgle? " sr.on srruc c 111m on ne.Ki wiiii. 1 1 a tirnri 1 " Onv ' 1 Jrti f.witu waIJ knew tho red o-loth on the hat l62to the badge of Terjes,' but ienigun- dei-the innncdijato command of Lee, they had, Availed for orders. But seeing the example set by liis ofti- ' cer, Avithout Hvaitin'g for iurtherT commands, they rushed upon them, iike a torrent. ' Lee's men, next, to.. the rear,' .discovering this, reined in' th6h horses id the right upon then Tory line, and! in less than one nilff-j ute, the engagement wa general. Colonel Lee bcing in front, ..and at the other end of the line, say forty poles, from aaH lero the action dom- . mcnccl, might have believed I tho Tories first attacked us.. IfjhoAv; gleston, he coiild have informed h"mi 1 otherwise. !;:' , As to other events, ifV-h' I have a persohal knowledge; thro are misrepresentationsbut it w noVi conA-epient lor mo to pomi oui an of them. .-1.1 .. : , ; .'"-.' I am, sir, vry respecfally,'- 0 . ; ,: 1 f Yotir most obedient . C !., .J. GljLVlIAM.'. The Hon. D. R.r lfis.N C2 S. ' Rtr.HJs. K a4 10, Pi-. 4 r 4 4' X J i 1 MA .i" 'J 1 ;j.:'-'---U J..-
The Chapel Hill Gazette (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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Nov. 21, 1857, edition 1
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