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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
gia militia did not join for the same reason. A large body of them was out with Colonel Clarke, and the overthrow of Gates was so sudden and so unexpected that they had not time to reinforce him.--In Gates's whole army we are confident there was not a Yankee company. There certainly were no Yankees with Marion and Sumter, and they were the men who had most to do with the tories in South Carolina. Nor were there any Yankees in Green's army when he took command. That army was composed, at Guilford, of the Maryland Line, under the command of Col. O. H. Williams, part of the Virginia Line, General Huger's South Carolina regulars, a part of the North Carolina Line, the cavalry of Cols. Lee and Washington, and the militia of Virginia and North Carolina. The whole force numbered 4,500 men — a considerable army in those days — and there was not a company of Yankee soldiers among them.--The battle of King's Mountain was won by militia from North and South Carolina and Virginia. Certainly