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Robert Howe (search for this): chapter 14
allant American officer, beloved for his virtues in private life, was killed by them after he became their prisoner. Roused by these incursions into Georgia, Robert Howe, the American commander in the southern district, meditated an expedition against St. Augustine. This scheme had no chance of success. At St. Mary's river an ieutenant-Colonel Campbell, arrived off the island of Tybee; and soon afterwards, passing the bar, approached Savannah. Relying on the difficulties of the ground, Howe offered resistance to a disciplined corps, ably commanded, and more than three times as numerous as his own. But on the twenty-ninth one party of British, guided b From jealousy of concentrated power, congress kept the military departments independent of each other. At the request of the delegates from South Carolina, Robert Howe was superseded in the south- Chap. XIII.} 1779. ern command by Major-General Benjamin Lincoln. In private life this officer was most estimable; as a soldier h
James Wright (search for this): chapter 14
e instructions from Germain authorized the confiscation and sale not only of negroes employed in the American army, but of those who voluntarily followed the British troops and took sanctuary under British jurisdiction. Compare Germain to Governor Wright, 19 Jan., 1780. Many of them were shipped to the markets of the West Indies. Before the end of three months after the capture of Savannah, all the property, real and personal, of the rebels in Georgia, was disposed of. Tonyn to Under-s at pleasure, robbed the widely scattered plantations without regard to the patriotism or the loyalty of their owners. Negroes were the spoil most coveted; on the average, they were valued at two hundred and fifty silver dollars each. When Sir James Wright returned to the government of Georgia, he found several thousands of them awaiting distribution among their claimants. The name of the British grew hateful, where it had before been cherished; their approach was dreaded as the coming of rui
Screven (search for this): chapter 14
nton, 25 Sept., 1778. One of these mixed parties of invaders summoned the fort at Sunbury to surrender. But when Colonel Mackintosh answered, Come and take it, they retreated. The other corps was stopped at the Ogeechee. On Chap. XIII.} 1778. their return they burned at Midway the church, almost every dwelling-house, and all stores of rice and other cereals within their reach; and they carried off with them all negroes, horses, cattle, and plate that could be removed by land or water. Screven, a gallant American officer, beloved for his virtues in private life, was killed by them after he became their prisoner. Roused by these incursions into Georgia, Robert Howe, the American commander in the southern district, meditated an expedition against St. Augustine. This scheme had no chance of success. At St. Mary's river an epidemic swept away one quarter of his men, and, after slight skirmishes, he led back the survivors to Savannah. Immediately after his return, on the twent
Patrick Ferguson (search for this): chapter 14
the condition of prisoners of war. The council, at its next meeting, debated giving up the town; Moultrie, Laurens, and Pulaski, who were called in, declared that they had men enough to beat the invaders; and yet against the voice of Gadsden, of Ferguson, of John Edwards, who was moved even to tears, the majority, at heart irritated by the advice of congress to emancipate and arm slaves, proposed a neutrality, during the war between Great Britain and America; the question whether the state shalllined to treat with the civil government of South Carolina; but made answer to Moultrie that the garrison must surrender as prisoners of war. Then we will fight it out, said Moultrie to the governor and council, and left their tent. Gadsden and Ferguson followed him to say: Act according to your own judgment, and we will support you; and Moultrie waved the flag from the gate as a signal that the conference was at an end. The citizens of Charleston knew nothing of the deliberations of the cou
Benjamin Lincoln (search for this): chapter 14
Chap. XIII.} 1779. ern command by Major-General Benjamin Lincoln. In private life this officer wasd: the rest were pardoned. On hearing that Lincoln from ill health had asked of congress leave thoice, but he was not consulted. The army of Lincoln, whose offer to retire was not accepted, was it had but one approach. The British amused Lincoln by a feint, while Lieutenant-Colonel Prevost . So quickly was one-fourth of the troops of Lincoln lost. The British captured seven pieces of cge had assembled great numbers at Orangeburg, Lincoln, who had neither the means of conducting a sihe British, having intercepted a letter from Lincoln,—in which he charged Moultrie Chap. XIII.} 1The Carolina militia returned to their homes; Lincoln, left with but about eight hundred men, passey-third of September when the Americans under Lincoln joined the French in the siege of the city. fled to the backwoods or across the river. Lincoln repaired to Charleston, and was followed by w[1 more...]
Rutherford (search for this): chapter 14
hey were poorly supplied with ammunition and though their enemy had the advantage of position, fought for their own homes under a leader whom they trusted, and on the third of February drove the invaders with great Chap. XIII.} 1779. Feb. 3. loss to their ships. The continental regiments of North Carolina were with Washington's army; the legislature of that state promptly called out two thousand of its people, and sent them, though without arms, to serve for five months under Ashe and Rutherford. The scanty stores of South Carolina were exhausted in arming them. In the last days of January, 1779, they joined the camp of Lincoln, whose troops thus became respectable as to numbers, though only six hundred of them were continentals. Meantime the assembly of South Carolina, superseding Rawlins Lowndes by an almost unanimous vote, recalled John Rutledge to be their governor. They ordered a regiment of light dragoons to be raised, offered a bounty of five hundred dollars to every
Maitland (search for this): chapter 14
ough unassisted, effected their landing. Meantime, the British commander worked day and night with relays of hundreds of negroes to strengthen his defences; and Maitland, regardless of malaria, hastened with troops from Beaufort through the swamps of the low country. On the sixteenth, d'estaing summoned General 16. Prevost to surrender to the arms of the king of France. While Prevost gained time by a triple interchange of notes, Maitland, flushed with a mortal fever caught on the march, brought to his aid through the inland channels the first division of about four hundred men from Beaufort. The second division followed a few hours later; and when b. After an obstinate struggle of fifty-five minutes to carry the redoubt, the assailants retreated before a charge of grenadiers and marines, led gallantly by Maitland. The injury sustained by the British was trifling; the loss of the Americans was about two hundred; of the French thrice as many. D'Estaing was twice wounded;
Mackintosh (search for this): chapter 14
regulars; the rest were vindictive refugees from Georgia and South Carolina, called troopers, though having only a few horses that were kept to go plundering into Georgia. Brown, their commander, held directly from the governor of East Florida the rank of lieutenantcolonel, so that the general was prevented from reducing them to some order and regulation. Prevost to Clinton, 25 Sept., 1778. One of these mixed parties of invaders summoned the fort at Sunbury to surrender. But when Colonel Mackintosh answered, Come and take it, they retreated. The other corps was stopped at the Ogeechee. On Chap. XIII.} 1778. their return they burned at Midway the church, almost every dwelling-house, and all stores of rice and other cereals within their reach; and they carried off with them all negroes, horses, cattle, and plate that could be removed by land or water. Screven, a gallant American officer, beloved for his virtues in private life, was killed by them after he became their prisoner
D'Estaing (search for this): chapter 14
both of them fell; at their side Sergeant Jasper was mortally wounded, but he used the last moments of his life to bring off the colors which he supported. A French standard was also planted. After an obstinate struggle of fifty-five minutes to carry the redoubt, the assailants retreated before a charge of grenadiers and marines, led gallantly by Maitland. The injury sustained by the British was trifling; the loss of the Americans was about two hundred; of the French thrice as many. D'Estaing was twice wounded; Pulaski once, and mortally. The cries of the dying, so wrote the Baron de Stedingk to his king, Gustavus the Third of Sweden, pierced me to the heart. I desired death, and might have found it, but for the necessity of thinking how to save four hundred men whose retreat was stopped by a broken bridge. He himself was badly wounded. At Paris, as he moved about on crutches, he became the delight of the highest social circles; and at one of the theatres he was personated
Henry Clinton (search for this): chapter 14
ere at a later date to be sent to take Charleston; and, on the landing of a small corps at Cape Fear, Germain believed that large numbers of the inhabitants would doubtless flock to the standard of the king, whose government would be restored in North Carolina. Then, by proper diversions in Virginia and Maryland, he said it might not be too much to expect that all America to the south of the Susquehanna would return to its allegiance. Germain to Clinton, most secret, 8 March, 1778. Sir Henry Clinton was no favorite of the minister's; these brilliant achievements were designed for Cornwallis. During the autumn of 1778, two expeditions were sent out by Prevost from East Florida. They were composed in part of regulars; the rest were vindictive refugees from Georgia and South Carolina, called troopers, though having only a few horses that were kept to go plundering into Georgia. Brown, their commander, held directly from the governor of East Florida the rank of lieutenantcolonel, s
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