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William Beatty.
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The regiment to which young Beatty was at
tacbed continued during the campaign, under
the command of Gen. Washington, and at the
expiration of his period of service, he returned
to his native state.
He did not, however remain long in this
state of inglorious inaction, condition which
ill-suted his young and ardent mind for in a
short time he was appointed lieutenant in the
Maryland line Of Continental troops, and spent
the Winter in raising recruits for the regiment to
which he belonged.
In the discharge of this unpleasant duty, he
acquitted himself with much credit, and in the
following spring joined the army at Middlebrook,
Somerset Co., New Jersey His merit, as an
efficient officer was soon discovered by the COM
mander in chief, and he was promoted to a
captaincy in the first Maryland regiment, which
had the honor of being for some time under
General Washington's immediate command
The first regiment however, under the COM
mand of Col Gunby, to which Captain Beatty
was transferred, and of which he was now the
Senior Captain, was finally ordered to join the
southern division of the American Army in the
Carolinas, and to cooperate with the force
there in resisting the progress of the enemy. The
distinguished feats of this division are familiar
to every American and must be peculiarly graft
fying to the people of Maryland, whose troops
bore so conspicuous part in that contest, espe
cially the first regiment which, according to
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was -eminantly distinguished in the retreat
through North Carolina, and the battle of Gull
ford.n
In this last battle, which was fought on the
18th of March, 1871, young Beatty signalized
himself in a particular manner, by engaging in
single combat gallant British soldier, whom he
pierced to the heart with his espontoon. This
brave regiment to whose valor the glory of the
day must be partly attributed, sustained its
high character for courage and discipline, and
ACQUIRED a reputation that never will be lost i
"At the same instant" says johnson in his life
of Gen. Green, Howard rushed upon them the
British, from the left, and the battle was liter
ally fought hand to hand"
Young Beatty rose high in the estimation of
his superior officers, and of the army.
His conduct had been such as to merit and
receive no ordinary praise, and his patriotism
and personal courage promised, at no distant
day, to elevate him to high rank in the army of
his country But fortune is not always propi-
tious to the brave His brilliant career was
destined soon to be brought to close but the
laurels he had won were doomed to acquire
fresher bloom and richer verdure by the man
ner of his death.
Attic battle of Hobkick's Hill, near Camden,
which was fought on the 25th of April in the
same year. Captain Beatty, while CALAMITY lead
ing on the right company of the first Maryland
regiment, received mortal wound, and died, as
he always wished to die, in the lap of Glory
Thus fell this brave and promising young officer,
in the twentysthird year of his age, who has
been emphatically termed by Judge johnson,
" The delight Of has command" who was the
pride of his regiment, and of the army, and
whose untimely death was universally lamented
by grateful and magnanimous nation.
General Lee, in his memoirs Of the war in the
southern department, speaking of this battle
SAYS, "The British lost no officer of distinction,
which was not the case with us. The wound Of
Lieutenant Ford proved mortal, and Captain
Beatty, of the first Maryland, was killed, than
whom the army did not possess an officer of more
promise