The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-21

the hre OF selected body Of American rifle
men, with Ike deliberate aim, to receive his death
wound in the engagement after the battle saltwater in
October l777 The effect OF the battle at Guord Court
House was decisive II drove Lord CORVALLIS from North
Carolina and led to his ultimate surrender Bestowine
proper the wounded with his characteristic hui
manity, he issued bulletin in the form of aproclama
on, announcing the triumphant Of his Aaestys
arms and promising forgiveness Of past Offences again
exhorted all loyal subjects to join him in establishing
columns and thnned and crippled ranks which had sus
tanned loss Of third he discovered that the
.,.a h was himself and the scene mmed
general action To obtain it, he had strained nerve and
snew and all the resources of military ingenuity strate
gem, and skll-had marched and counter marched full
five hundred miles, through deep rivers and broken
woods IN heavy rains and in the depth Of winter
oen,eo nsen ana ms army the usual comforts Of the
CELEBRITY to his movements he had attained it, he had
driven his adversary from fairly fought field and tasted
fruits" The oyalists had not risen to join him. as he
expected and Notifying must have been the fact he
that the salvation Of his army depended upon
The indomitabe Green on the other hand refreshing
and arrayng his discounted forces at his first camp after
leaving the field, advanced in three days. to the
conflict, and now experienced the proud satisfaction Of
seeing his late exuant enemy fleeing before him. to
place of refuge and that he had delivered State from
conquest by his long suffering, patience prudence
rage, and the bravery and ortude of his troops We
Cross creek to Wilmington his march thence nearly
with the line Of the present railroad into Virginia. where
in less than six months he obliged to surrender to
quent march TO the relief of South Carolina.
But there was another invasion, in different quarter
without brief allusion to which task would be in
AS part Of his plan for the subugaton of the State
Lord Corvallis about the time of breaking up his camp
at Winnsburg had sent from Charleston land and naval
force under Major Craig TO take and hold the town of
Wilmington as convenient post through which supplies
might be furnished his own army which he expected
to bring into communication with it. The expedition
succeeded, and the town occupied the first Of
February The only advantage, however, that it afford
n inv stnn hu and
treat and abundant refreshments after the
battle at Guiord Court House. He reached it on the 9TH
OF April; and on the 2t;h month set of to
unite In the attempt to overcome Virginia.
Inc post at Wilmington, which occupied by about
three hundred regular troops and but varying
fected in that region Of the State From the Grmness
with which the republican cause had been maintained
and the than doubtful Of the British
prudent neutrality but after the departure o. Green's
army into South Carolina they acquired new confidence
mixed force, under the immediate command Of Major
Craig rayersed the country with occasional skrmishes
with the militia as far eastward the valley Of
Neuse river, and seized the town of Newborn,
and the war between wings and tories ragged in the dis
trct between the Cape Fear and Pedee with Hrceness
rarely surpassed in border contests Generals Brown
Owen Wade, willis and other patriot leaders in that re-
gon besides encountering this domestic enemy in skir
mishes and assaults without number fought with them
Creek, q branch of the --, and General Butler, with
the militia Of Orange county and repulsed Them
without decisive result at Lneys mills, on Cave Creek,
The chief Of the tory commanders if not the head of
their forces was David Tanning, who in his correspon-
dence styled himself COonel of the Royal Militia" and
who has left character in the traditions Of the country
associated with every crime savorng oraacty revenge
band Kindred spirits he swept over the country like
chief surprising parties of wings when OF their
guard-he often gave no quarters lying in ambush
bouncing upon them OF their homes, he seized and
dered or tortured the obnoxious patriots and then plum
dered and burnt their dwellings, BY series of bold ad
ye captured the wing militia officers OF the county of
Chatham when sitting in court martial ut Hsboro and
byl sudden descent Marlborough at dawn of day.
about the middle of September seized and carried of the
Governor of the State He outved the war; and took
fuge in the loyalst settlement of Nova Scotia Mr. Sa
bine whose sketch of Tanning in his lives Of the 10y
alsts is exceedingly brief in illustration Of his charac
ter outlaw relates that when General Marion Of
South Carolina admitted to terms, Major Gaines, q
celebrated loyahst, and party under him, Fan
ming was specially named, as excluded from the bene
fits arrangement This quite corresponds with the
on the north side Of the Carolina border caused him
with two Others only to be specially excepted from the
provisions Of act of and oblivion passed by the
Iegisture at the conclusion of peace.
The Governor who was SO as to become his
prisoner was His Excelency Thomas Burke, an Irish
gentleman bred to the profession of medicine in his
tive country but had renounced it for that of the law
this Of bold and impetuous temper, ready writer
he had been one Of the great conductors Of the
contest with the mother country in the colony and had
had large share in the formation Of the constitution for
Immediately reinstated to the Continental Congress-
which he had been active and conspicuous MEMBER
Governor in the first part Of the year ISL He
to have left his seat in Congress- at philadelphia and
gone as an amateur to the battle of and his
election to the chief magistracy Of the State, in this
crisis is presumed to have been In degree atribu
table to to the energy and ardor Of his nature which
might have rendered him successful leader in the
field. Being some forty miles distant from the
nearest approach Of these marauders heretofore he
was completely surprised, and without military at
in will orriad off with
out difficulty. Hurried by long and rapid marches
through forests and painless of ntermnged sand
LACED Of every thing except the clothes he he
delivered by his capors to the custody Of Major
Craig tine ESQ Of and y an Outrage
mtted to close under pretence that he
prisoner of state and not of Being transferred to
Charleston, where General Leslie was in command, he
was paroed as prisoner to james Island. The island
was at this time, Dec, 'S1 and jan, infested with
large numbers h tory % driven to seek IT. S
Greene in recovering South Carolina and driving in their
forces to the garrison Of Charleston To these Governor
object of such deep hostility to endanger his personal
safety To an application for parole to his own State
equivalent a these should be refused then that he
might be transferred to other place for his personal
safety no direct answer was made but he was given to
understand that none of his requests could be allowed
and that, at the solicitation Of Major Craig
he was to be detained, indefinitely, to the end,
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suffer punishment under the laws Of the State, there
might be retaliation upon him. II the seventh
year of the and the sixth after the national declara
ton of Independence the American had recently
acquired renewed confidence and stability from the
render Of Lord CORVALLIS at Yorktown which occasoned
the evacuation of Wilmington by Major Craig from the
result OF the battle at Eutaw Springs and the consequent
retirement Of the British army to Charleston and from
the arrival Of large renorcemepts to Gen. Greene from
the northward under Generals St Clair and Wayne The
individual thus subjected to degradation and insult
high spirited and urbane gentleman accustomed to the
observances of refined fe and the Difference habtuay
yielded TO his position Officially, he the first mags
rate of of the thirteen independent States and the
third in succession who had performed the func
tons of that station In the outset of the war; Great
Britain affected to treat all Americans rebels
without regard to their organizations and
the dgnfed reply of Gen. Washington to the naughty
note Of Gen. Gage at Boston, ustifyng such course in
which he to the British commander in chief
"fyour officers, prisoners receive from me treat
men different from what wished to show Them they and
you will remember the occasion of it, will readily occur
to the reader of history upon the statement of this
ton. But in the progress of the contest, this pre-
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