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The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Egmont keg light-house struck by Lightning. (search)
ibuting to Tarlton an impartiality which is hardly natural, it is easy to account for the fairness with which he related the events of the Southern war. He had been a great favorite of Cornwallis. He dissuaded him from fighting the battle of Guilford, assuring him that victory would do him no good, and that defeat would utterly rain him; he dissuaded him from invading Vir ginia and strenuously insisted upon his return to South Carolina; above all, he dissuaded him from shutting himself up in Yank and suffering himself to be surrounded at leisure. When he found that his advice was not listened to in any of these instances, and that the consequence was the capture of the army and the ruin of the cause, his fiery temper could no longer be controlled. He became furious in opposition to the war, and had not recovered from the effects of his anger when he wrote his book. It may be said that a work written under such impressions was not likely to be altogether so impartial as we have desc