Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina: Embracing for the Most Part the Primitive and Colonial History of the Territory Comprising the Original County of Spartanburg with a General Review of the Entire Military Operations in the Upper Portion of South Carolina and Portions of North Carolina |
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American army attack battle battle of Cowpens Blackstock's Broad River camp Capt Captain captured Catawba cavalry Cedar Spring chapter Charles McDowell Charlestown Cherokee Cleveland Colonel Colonel Campbell Colonel Clarke command Congress Cornwallis Council of Safety Cowpens Creek crossed Cunningham detachment district Drayton Earle's Ford encamped enemy enemy's engagement Enoree Enoree River expedition Fair Forest Ferguson fire Fletchall Fletchall's forces garrison Georgia Gilberttown Governor Greene Hampton horses hundred Indians insurgents Isaac Shelby John John Sevier Johnson Johnson's Traditions killed King's Mountain latter Lord Cornwallis Lord Rawdon Loyalists Major Williamson McDowell miles militia Morgan Musgrove's Mill night Ninety-Six North Pacolet officers party patriot Pickens Polk County present County prisoners regiment retreat road Saluda River says a writer Says Draper sent settlements Sevier soon South Carolina Spartanburg County Sumter Tarleton Thickety tion Tories troops Tyger River up-country Virginia Whigs William wounded
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Page 174 - I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you command, and that you will obey, in the strictest manner, the directions I have given in this letter, relative to the inhabitants of this country.
Page 276 - ... knew my adversary, and was perfectly sure I should have nothing but downright fighting. As to retreat, it was the very thing I wished to cut off all hope of. I would have thanked Tarleton had he surrounded me with his cavalry. It would have been better than placing my own men in the rear to shoot down those who broke from the ranks. When men are forced to fight, they will sell their lives dearly...
Page 181 - if they did not desist from their opposition to the British arms, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword."* This threat accomplished more than Ferguson bargained for.
Page 175 - my bleeding country save! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep these lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men! our country yet remains ! By that dread name we wave the sword on high, And swear for her to live ! — with her to die!
Page 286 - General Anderson, of Montgomery county, Maryland,) hearing the order, also pushed for the same object ; and both being emulous for the prize, kept pace until near the first piece, when Anderson, by putting the end of his spontoon forward into the ground, made a long leap, which brought him upon the gun and gave him the honor of the prize. My attention was now drawn to an altercation of some of the men with an artillery man, who appeared to make it a point of honor not to surrender his match.
Page 173 - ... oppressed by them. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who...
Page 34 - Beef, Pork, and other salted Flesh, Beams, Planks, and Timber for Building, most part of Cedar, Cypress, Sassafras, Oak, Walnut and Pine. They carry on a great Trade with the Indians, from whom they get these great Quantities of Deer Skins, and those of other wild beasts, in Exchange for which they give them only Lead, Powder, coarse Cloth, Vermillion, Iron Ware, and some other Goods, by -which they have a very considerable Profit.
Page 7 - ... their Hair black and straight, tied various ways, sometimes oyl'd and painted, stuck through with Feathers for Ornament or Gallantry ; their Eyes black and sparkling, little or no Hair on their Chins, well limb'd and featured, painting their Faces with different Figures of a red or Sanguine Colour, whether for Beauty or to render themselves formidable to their Enemies I could not learn. They are excellent Hunters ; their Weapons the Bow and Arrow, made of a Read, pointed with sharp stones, or...
Page 18 - Charlestown towards the towns of the cherokees behind the great mountains. That he desires the english and Indians may live together as children of one family ; that the cherokees be always ready to fight against any nation, whether white men or Indians, who shall dare molest or hurt the english — that the nation of cherokees shall on their part, take care to keep the trading path clean— :that there be no blood on the path where the english tread, even though they should be accompanied with other...
Page 183 - Sevier, I have no authority by law to make that disposition of this money. It belongs to the impoverished treasury of North Carolina, and I dare not appropriate a cent of it to any purpose; but, if the country is overrun by the British, liberty is gone. Let the money go, too. Take it. If the enemy by its use is driven from the country, I can trust that country to justify and vindicate my conduct. Take it.