Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-01-26

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Morgan from the main body where 7 conside-
rahIe slaughter of the enemy took place, IN
which action he received wound from an
ounce ball through the right thigh although
being wounded, pursued the enemy to place,
called Powles's hook, where they embarked,
and by 10 o'clock the next day he killed two
of their grenadiers belonging 10 the 4ih req
ment while they were on Pcluett.
After being in number of scouting par
ties, and serving the term OF three years, he
bid adieu To the northern states, and came 10
Virginia he then volunteered his services To
go on with Gen. Gates, aud then was detach
I'D into Col. Mayo's regiment, and in few
days ageneral engagement took place between
CORVALLIS and Gates, which action he was in,
and being placed near the Colonel, in the cen
ire of the regiment, the general orders We're
that Wallis army was to be taken at the point
of the bayonct by parcel of raw, nndisci
pinned men, and between day break and SUI
rise, the British charged upon us, and IN a
few moments dispersed the great General
Gates army, and he himself, (the GEM killed
two horses in making his escape to Ilillsbo-
rough.
Col. Mayo and myself continued toge-
Their after the army broke, and grenadier
of the British was about running his bayonct
through him.--He then wheeled about and put
Il ball and three buck shot through the grcna
dier, and saved the colonel's ie-Mayo and
himselfkept together upon the left wing cf
1'arlton's line, until they were charged upon
by one of Tarton's troopers, and 1T that
time ordered his men not to fight in form,
but to cut down the militia as they rose the
hill, (for the militia had thrown away all their
guns.) The trooper ordered him To give up
his gun, he made ieint advance towards
him: as he did not advance quick enough, he
made a pass at his head with his sword, and
he parted it of with his gun-he then reined
in, and made second charge, and demand
ed his gun-as he advanced towards him.
wheeled the point of the guu--run him
| through the body, dismounted him, got on his
horse, aud rode through the British army, cry
ing, Huzza my brave boys, yonder goes the
dann'd rebels" he made his escape by cons-
derlug him as one of the refugees.
The Colonel after running two or three
hundred yards, came up with him and gave
him his horse, which he .ode to Hilsborough
where he continued about five or six weeks
| through fatigue; tire Colonel after his return
willed him thousand acres of land lying on
Ittichland creek, Kentucky, for services he
| rendered his country and saving his life (which
| land he never got, as the title is disputabe.-
| After Gates's deirat, he returned to the c0un-
| ty OF Prinse Edward he then volunteered
himself under Capt. Watkins TO join Col.
Washington to the south, equipped himself
with good hOrsc--we then fell in with the
| British of about five or six hundred at place
called the Scotch Lake About Il hundred
yards from the Lake they fortified themselves
| in upon the top ola hill resembling sugar
! loaf. As soon as he got in sight of the Lake
| he tied his horse and ran under the bank
| thereof TO discover the situation the enemy
| were IN and after getting opposite to the fort,
| he discovered their situation, found there was
no danger under the foot Of the mount, where
all their tents and mdrquees were pitched /; he
| then ran from the lake TO the foot of the
mount among all their tents aud marques rs
| they stood pitched and after walking about
for some time went Into one ofther marquees
where there were several hogsheads; when
| he was about to return, threw one of the
hogsheads down upon the bulge and rolling
it some distance, placed himself upon his bel
| ly with his head under cover of the hogshead,
and by drawing it down gently by each chine
got it to the lake the British firing AT him
| at the same time, and fired several balls
through the hogshead. The British being
surrounded by our cavalry and infantry. they
could not come out OF the fort, and when he
/ arrived at his journeys end General Johnson
and his picquett were placed there--the Ge-
neral opened the hogshead and the contents
1
which he divided among Washington s. Lees
men who were bare for such necessaries. Ge-
neral johnson himself wore some of the pan
| falcons /: he then mounted his horse and rode
| around to the north side of the mount where
! he discovered eight horses belonging 10 the
| British officers about one hundred yards from
he foot he borrowed whip and rode be-
tween the fort and the horses under fire, and
brought them safe into camp and gave them
up TO Col. Washington. He then joined Col.
Washington, and was at the battle of Gull
ford, and after the battle was pretty well over
there were eight hundred oi the Kings
Guards held in reserve TO cut oil the retreat of
the militia-Col Washington observing their
n maneuyres made charge upon them in
which charge he (FranciscO) was wounded in
the thigh by bayonet from the knee to the
socket of the hip,and in the presence ofmany
he was scent kilt men beside several other
passes which without doubt might he fatal
II Besides he was in many sklrmishes to the
south with capt. Irby, in one Ofwhich ne lost
his horse, shot from under him, which he gave
twenty three thousand pounds oftobacco for
and he lost another at the battle of Guford
from hard riding the country paid him for the
latter, the other is still unsettled. The docu-
ment sat this time are in the hands nf John w
Eppes. The reason that he has never made
1 application until this late hour, was, that he
lost his pocket book, which contained all his
vouchers, hut happily, were sent to him from
the Moravian town, which was found by ar
, honest old Dutchman in the course of a. few
years past. After returning home from Gull
ford he fell in accidentally at the house o
Benjamin Ward, in Amelia county, where
piundering party Of the British, detached from
the nIdn body of Col. Tarlton, came TO the
J | said Wards To- plumber, al which place he was
o1e Of the British demanded his watch anC