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From the UnionUiiie Times.
GEN. ANDREW PICKENs

From the UniomUiiie Times
GEN. ANDREW PICKENs.
Mr.. EDIroR ;-Rumor says that there is
pow in progress, busts Of our distinguished
revolutionary characters, &c, South Caroli-.
mans, which are to be placed in inches in Tue
new State House, Of fcourse from some reso-
luton of the Legislature, although have
not been able to find it. This expense I do
not object to, for it is mere drop in the
bucket OF the tens of thousands that are
spent annually on that splendid edifce.
Historians have never done justice to our
distinguished patriots Of the up-country-
'c'H they yssso ru!e the affairs Of the State
do It roao Gen. Sumter and Gen. Ma
rion shoud'have place in the Capitol, so
shon'd Gen. Pickens, an up country man,
have one assigned him also. am told
fine portrait, in military costume; of Gen.
Andrew Pickens is in the house ofCol. F.
w. Pickens, Of Edgefe.d, which no doubt
can be Obtained for the purpose of casti:g
his bust.
beg leave to bring to the view of the
good people of South Carolina, Gen. An
drew Pickcus, and .some of his military
services during our Revolutionary struggle.
He was of Irish descent, born in Pennsyl.
vania, and emjgfatetfto s. c. with his pa
rents, when boy, and settled first in The
Waxhaws.
In l76o, before he was twenty. one years
ofage, he volunteered in Grants expedition
against the Cherokee Indians, where he
received his first lesson in military discip-
line, with Lawrence, Marion, ,Monl,riesI.and
Hnger. He. early in tie revolutionary
contest took sides with the Wings, and be-
came leader Of the patriots. In 1879 Col.
Pickens. who then commanded a regiment
of about three hundred and sixty men, pur.
sued Col. Boyd, who had under him eight
hundred tories. He overlook them at Ket-
tie Creek, where severe Z attlasS.ensued.
Boyd was mortalIy wound ssss6 osf bis
men killed, and about ssyenty five made
prisoners, the remainder scattered sto iGe
winds. This was thesirst great sreserss,SEoof
fortune which the tories met withSatld of.
course proved to be of great service iIi4sthe
cause Of the patriots g.
Gen. Pickens, with his men, stood the
first onset Of the British in the famous bat.
tie Of the Cowpens. He ordered his men:
not TO fire until they could see the white of
their enemy's eyesssfThis order was execu-
ted with great firmness. Gen. Pickens, iu
person, received the surrendered sword of
Major Macarthur on this memorable day.
Congress on the 9th of FEBRUARY, 1891,
passed a vote of thanks to the officers and
men who fought in the battle Of the Cow.
pens, and voted Gen. Andrew Pickens a
sword. lie was elected Brigadier Gene.
raj in North Carolina, to succeed General
Davidson-who was killed at Gowan's Ford
on Catawba river-and thus actually had
the honor TO command brigade in both
Catplinas at the same time. He cut Col.
Piles men to pieces one. night, on slak
river,'in North Carolina. He captured
Augusta from the British after they bad
held it two years, as Lees Memoirs of the
Southern Campaign will prove. He was en-
gagedin the seige Of Ninety. six, and there
lost two brothers. Gen. Pickens was dan.
gerously wounded in the breast by muskct
ball, which knocked him of his horse while
gallan.ly leading on fis men in the battle
Of Eutaw Springs. The effects Of this
1917.
In fourteen days he conquered the erea,
Cherokee nation without slhss loss of man
and madeahe celstrateds treaty of Hope,
we'll, in Pendleton, 81 which Anderson
Pickens, and Greenville, were Obtained
He also :fougbsthesgreat RIG nght ~hiah
psrfsety aubdded Thy Tadlsns ever after
Yards.
GEM Piskeds il one Of theatsy officers,
wig never drew cent Of pay for bis Rsye,
luao nary seryiaeso ssshsroli Of coinp,sollen,
eficeswill prove.
After the, ssss lsssS: Pieksn. bsld u.
a,tiBt County Gsaff Hat Ut uadsr:ihe new ,s
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