... approach of Cornwallis from the South, adjourned to Charlottesville. They were followed there, in June, by Tarleton's cavalry, seven of them captured, and the rest forced to retreat to Staunton. Gov. Jefferson escaped capture by only ten minutes. And yet in a few months thereafter — in October, 1781--our people had the satisfaction of seeing Lord Cornwallis and his whole army captured at Yorktown, an...