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o withdraw the garrison from the fort without striking a blow. Rutledge refused, and Lee contented himself with giving several orders for preparing for a retreat. A better soldier than he commanded the garrison. It was the brave and calm Colonel Moultrie, who was unmoved by the evidences of alarm in the mind of the boastful Lee. Had the will of the latter prevailed, the fort, city, and province would undoubtedly have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Lee, having received his $30,000 indthoughtful men who regarded his profession of devotion to the American cause with suspicion. In 1775 he corresponded with Burgoyne, his old commander in Europe, while in Boston. In the summer of 1776, when at Charleston, he tried to induce Colonel Moultrie to abandon Fort Sullivan when it was attacked by land and water. In the autumn of that year he persistently disobeyed the orders of Washington to join the army, with a large force under his command, while it was retreating before Lord Cornw

Moultrie, William 1731-1805 Military officer; born in South Carolina in 1731; was captain of infantry in the Cherokee War; William Moultrie. member of the Provincial Congress from St. Helena parish in 1775, and was made colonel of the 2d South Carolina Regiment in June of that year. He gained great fame by his defence of Fort Sullivan (see Charleston), in Charleston Harbor. In September, 1776, he was made a brigadier-general. He was engaged in the local service, and in May, 1779, witWilliam Moultrie. member of the Provincial Congress from St. Helena parish in 1775, and was made colonel of the 2d South Carolina Regiment in June of that year. He gained great fame by his defence of Fort Sullivan (see Charleston), in Charleston Harbor. In September, 1776, he was made a brigadier-general. He was engaged in the local service, and in May, 1779, with 1,000 militia, opposed the advance of Prevost upon Charleston, which he held until Lincoln relieved him. He was distinguished at the siege of Charleston in 1780, was made a prisoner, and remained so until 1782, when he was exchanged for Burgoyne. While a prisoner he wrote his Memoirs, published in 1802. In October of that year, he was promoted major-general, and was governor of South Carolina in 1785-86 and 1794-96. He died in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27, 1805.

nvading general his terms for a capitulation. Prevost offered peace and protection to those who would accept them; to others, to be prisoners of war The executive council debated the surrender of the town, and, in defiance of remonstrances from Moultrie, young Laurens (who was in Charleston), and others, they proposed a neutrality during the war between Great Britain and America, the question whether the State shall belong to Great Britain or remain one of the United States to be determined by two powers. Laurens was requested to carry this proposition to Prevost, but he scornfully refused, and another took it. Prevost refused to treat, and demanded the surrender of the troops as prisoners of war. Then we will fight it out, exclaimed Moultrie, and left the tent of the governor and council. Gadsden followed him out and said, Act according to your judgment, and we will support you. The British fell back towards Georgia that night. During the intense excitement following the attack

and grand council at Charleston. This claim the provincial government disallowed, and the colony at Port Royal was compelled to acknowledge submission. Soon afterwards Lord Cardross returned home. Some time afterwards his colonists were dislodged by the Spaniards at St. Augustine (1686), who accused them of inciting the Indians to invade their territory. In 1779, when Prevost joined Campbell at Savannah, the British commanders determined to extend a part of their forces into South Carolina. Major Gardiner was detached, with 200 men, to take possession of Port Royal Island; but soon after he landed, General Moultrie, with the same number of men (only nine of whom were regulars), attacked and drove him off the island. Two field-pieces, well served by some militia under Captains Heyward and Rutledge, were principally gainers of this advantage. A small body of horsemen, under Capt. John Barnwell, who gained the rear of the British, were also efficient in contributing to the result.

Christopher Gadsden, a committee to fit out two vessels of war, Nov. 25, orders thirteen vessels of war built and appoints Esek Hopkins commander Dec. 13, 1775 British vessels driven from Charleston Harbor, S. C., by artillery company under Colonel Moultrie, stationed on Haddrell's Point Dec., 1775 American forces united under Montgomery and Arnold repulsed at Quebec; General Montgomery killedDec. 31, 1775 Washington unfurls the first Union flag of thirteen stripes at Cambridge, Mass. Jan. 1,een years to follow as a sinking-fundJan. 2, 1779 Vincennes, Ind., captured by the British Jan., 1779 British under General McLane take possession of Castine, Me Jan. 12, 1779 British under Major Gardiner driven from Port Royal Island by General Moultrie Feb. 3, 1779 Franklin commissioned sole minister plenipotentiary to France, and Adams recalled Feb., 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek, Ga., American victory Feb. 14, 1779 Americans under Major Clarke capture Vincennes Feb. 20, 1779 Battle of

ll1760 Thomas Boone1762 William Bull1763 Charles Montague1766 William Bull1769 William Campbell1775 Governors under the Constitution. John Rutledge1775 Rawlin Lowndes1778 John Rutledge1779 John Matthews1782 Benjamin Guerard1783 William Moultrie1785 Thomas Pinckney1787 Arnoldus Vanderhorst1792 William Moultrie1794 Charles Pinckney1796 Edward Rutledge1798 John Draytonacting1800 James B. Richardson1802 Paul Hamilton1804 Charles Pinckney1806 John Drayton1808 Henry Middleton1William Moultrie1794 Charles Pinckney1796 Edward Rutledge1798 John Draytonacting1800 James B. Richardson1802 Paul Hamilton1804 Charles Pinckney1806 John Drayton1808 Henry Middleton1810 Joseph Alston1812 David R. Williams1814 Andrew J. Pickens1816 John Geddes1818 Thomas Bennet1820 John L. Wilson1822 Richard J. Manning1824 John Taylor1826 Stephen D. Miller1828 James Hamilton1830 Robert Y. Hayne1832 George McDuflie1834 Pierce M. Butler1836 Patrick Noble1838 B. K. Henneganacting1840 J. P. Richardson1840 James H. Hammond1842 William Aiken1844 David Johnson1846 W. B. Seabrook1848 John H. Means1850 John L. Manning1852 James H. Adams1854 R. F. W. Alston1856

you to the highest honors. Accept these two standards as a reward justly due to your regiment; and I make not the least doubt, under Heaven's protection, you will stand by them as long as they can wave in the air of liberty. On receiving them Moultrie said: The colors shall be honorably supported, and shall never be tarnished. On the morning of July 4 Governor Rutledge visited the garrison, and in the name of South Carolina thanked them; and to Sergeant Jasper he offered a lieutenant's commim as long as they can wave in the air of liberty. On receiving them Moultrie said: The colors shall be honorably supported, and shall never be tarnished. On the morning of July 4 Governor Rutledge visited the garrison, and in the name of South Carolina thanked them; and to Sergeant Jasper he offered a lieutenant's commission and a sword. The sergeant refused the former, but accepted the latter. The fort on Sullivan's Island which Moultrie had so gallantly defended was renamed Fort Moultrie.

nd common achievement. The men who responded to these impulses were, perhaps, less cultured than the best of the old historians. It was long before there appeared among them one who could be ranked with Hutchinson, though some of them wrote well and displayed great industry. The stream was wider than formerly, but it was not so deep. Of those who wrote about the Revolution, in one phase or another, the best were the Rev. William Gordon, Dr. David Ramsay, William Henry Drayton, General William Moultrie, John Marshall, and William Wirt. Less scholarly but more widely influential were Mrs. Mercy Warren and Parson Weems. Gordon, who was born in England, preached at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1770 to 1786. He was an active Whig, and after his return to England he wrote in four volumes a history of the Revolution (1788), which was widely read by the English, and in America was honoured with a pirated edition and long extracts in the newspapers. We now know that Gordon copied fr

30 Moral uses of dark things, 213 More, Hannah, 367, 397, 399 Morgan, Gen. J. H., 306 Morituri Salutamus, 40 Morris, George P., 152 Morris, Wm., 245, 254 Morse, Jedidiah, 115 Morse, S. F. B., 174 Mortal Antipathy, a, 228, 233 Morton's hope, 134, 145 Moses Adams. See Bagby, George W. Mosses from an old Manse, 20 Mother Goose, 397, 408 Motley, John Lathrop, 129, 130, 131– 47, 228, 230, 231 Motley, Mary Benjamin, 134, 146 Motley Book, the, 152 Moultrie, General, William, 104, 105 Mountain of the lovers and other poems, 311 Mourner à la Mode, The, 243 Muhlenberg family, the, 197 Munroe & Co., 9 Murfree, Mary N., 360, 365, 379, 383, 388, 389, 390, 391 Murray, Lindley, 124 My double and how he Undid Me, 374 My friend Bingham, 375 My Maryland, 295, 296, 303, 304, 308, 309 My old Kentucky home, 353 My springs, 345 My study Windows, 247 My wife and child, 290, 299 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the, 58 Nation, the,