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orse for service in connection with his force. They obeyed with great alacrity, and came forth in large numbers, armed, equipped, and mounted upon splendid chargers. What their numbers were, we do not know that we ever heard; or if we ever heard, we do not now recollect. They were as many, however, as were wanted, and they rendered good service in protecting the country from pillagers. In the southwestern portion of Virginia, a powerful body of mounted infantry, under the command of Colonel Campbell, about eight months before these operations of Lafayette, left their homes to unite with other horsemen from North and South Carolina in an attack upon the British partizan Ferguson, who, with a body of tories and English, was spreading havoc and ruin throughout the western portions of North Carolina. These men were all mounted on splendid horses, capable of the greatest fatigue and endurance. In selecting the men to attack Ferguson at King's Mountain, every man from Virginia, on this