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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
n its camp on the James river, just below Byrd creek, awaited the return of the expeditions. For the next ten days, Cornwallis established his Headquarters at Elk Hill on a plantation belonging to Jefferson. With one hundred and eighty dragoons and forty mounted infantry, Tarleton rode seventy miles in twenty-four hours, desthe James river from the Point of Fork to a little below the mouth of Byrd creek. Tarleton had suffered nothing of Jefferson's at Monticello to be injured. At Elk Hill, under the eye of Cornwallis, all the barns and fences were 25. burned; the growing crops destroyed; the fields laid absolutely waste; the throats cut of all the not to give them freedom. The rest of the neighborhood was treated in like manner, but with less of destructive fury. In the march of the British army from Elk Hill down the river to Williamsburg, where it arrived on the twenty-fifth of June, all dwelling-houses were plundered. The trusty band of Lafayette hung upon its rear,