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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 24: (search)
rsuit with so much skill that the British remained ignorant of his advance. At four o'clock on the morning of the eighth of September, his army was in motion to Sept. 8. attack them. The centre of the front line was composed of two small battalioSept. 8. attack them. The centre of the front line was composed of two small battalions from North Carolina, and of one from South Carolina on each wing, commanded respectively by Marion and Pickens. The second line was formed of three hundred and fifty continentals of North Carolina, led by General Sumner; of an equal number of Vits of triumph were doomed to bleed. A brick house sheltered the British as they fled. Against the Chap. XXIV.} 1781. Sept. 8. house Greene ordered artillery to play; but the gunners were shot down by riflemen, and the fieldpieces abandoned to thwere all but mortal, had in later years no consolation for his share in the conflict; for, said he, Chap. XXIV.} 1781. Sept. 8. I was then fighting against liberty. Occupying the field of battle by a strong picket, Greene drew off for the night