... Petersburg was twice taken in May, 1781. The Legislature, during the same month, on the 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 p...