The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-08
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cru papers that the Soathcrn peaple VIII
never again live IN peace with the Yankees !.
II says In The Caroliaas 'aad In fensssi~
vAnla the wings and tories went through tne
Revolutionary war about equally dsiesa,
til, ,s;h NoYtA<ra sagperi. the waise III
umphcd, aud yet history tells u thas sAe
huhiuaated'. tories fell easily into the new
order Of things" The Charleston Course
exposes the tic embraced In the three words
which We have placed In taltcs, and shows
that With the exception OF Gen. Green, vito
wa the only great military officer thai iaa-
keedom ever prodaeed, and who became 4
Georgian by adoption, the "Nortasrn sup
pMt" alluded TO by the Is",ts amounted 10
nothing. "a few feeble companies From
Pennsylvania" says the Coi~ier. Preached
South CaroIiua and did service; ha: beyond
this, and few stall Officers, perhaps, no
Northerner ever pressed Southern so'' ia
defence of the Revolution"
This Is nnquestionably true The power
fnl army of which the Yankee Genera Lin
coin, made gift to Sir Henry Clinton nj
Charleston-shutiingh himself up in that city
while the enemy was all powerful by sea anu
land, and had nothing to do but blockade
the barbor and throw force Of doxbie his
strength around lit By land-was composed
almost entirely of men from Virginia, North
ana South Carolina. and Georgia. To the
best OF our knowledge and belief. there were
not half dozen companies OF Yankees
among them. The large army which Gates
afterwards so foolishly threw away az CAM
den vas composed of the Maryland and Del
aware lines; and OF militia from Virginia and
North Carolina, the greater part Of the
South Carolina militia being at the time en-
gagged with Marion, Sumter, aud other parsi-
sans, and fortunately being prevented from
Joining Gates By the suddenness of Ike ca :
tastrophe which destroyed his army. ihe
Georgia militia did not join for the same
reason. 4 large body OF them was OH
with Colonel Clarke, aud the overthrow OF
GATES was so sudden and SO unexpected
that they had not time to reinforce him
In Gates's whole army we are contident1here
was not q Yankee company. There Ger
tainly were no Yankees with Marion and
Sumter, and they were the men who had
most to do .ith the tories in South Caro-
lima. Nor were there any Yankees IN Green's
army when he took command. That army
was composed, at Guilford, Of the Maryland
Line, under the command Of Col. .. II.
Williams, part of the Virginia Line, General
Huger's South Caroiina regulars, a par: oi
the North Carolina Line, the cavalry OF
Coils. Lee and Washington, and the militia
of Virginia and North Carolina The whole
force numbered 4. 500 men-a considerable
army in those days-and there YVES not c
company of Yankee soldiers among them
The battle of Kings Mountain was wen ny
militia from North and South Carolina aud
Virginia Certainly there were no Yankees
there, The battle of the Cowpens was woi,
by the Virginia and Maryland troops under
command Of Gen. Morgan, tie Maryland
Line being that day under the command Of
John Eager Howard. There were no Yam
KEGS there. There were no Yankees al
Hobkirk's Hill, or at Ninety Six, or at En-
taw, or at Augusta, or anywhere else, during
the whole time Of Green's command. The
statement, therefore, that "NortheEn Nhigs,"
meaning Yankee Wings, assisted 10 snfjn-
gate the tories In the Carolinas is simply a
Yankee lie.
A Yankee historian nasael Eiidrcth, whose
book we glanced over several years ago,
says that when CORVALLIS came To Virginia
there was nobody to oppose him, because
the planters were all too busy taking care
Of their negroes. This lie has never beca
noticed that We know OF, yet il ought Sc
have been. The fact is, Virginia Lad ii thai
very moment with Washingtons ARMY, l.
Ing before New York, at least five thousand
with Green or with other officers, outside OF
the State, and twice that number soon raj
lied around Lafayette. She had seat the
year before three Thousand militia to The
army Of Gates, and she had just coma uered,
with her own troops, the Illinois territory
that splendid empire, embracing Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan-whieh her
statesmen, in mad fit Of generosity, after
wards presented to the United States, which
was the same thing with giving it to the
Yankees.
We fought our own battles during the
revolution, and we helped the Yankees 10
fight theirs. The Southern troops through
out the war were the best and the hraVest CT
Waahington's army. They saved the army
BY their yalor at Brandywiuc, when the
Yankees, In . panic, abandoned their strong
position Of Chald's ford. They carried every
thing before them at Germautown, and
would that day have put all end to the war
had they been supported by the Yankees
i was with the greatest difficulty that La
fayette conld induce the Yankee portion OF
his troops to come farther South than Balti-
mora, when he was sent to rally the Vir-
ginls militia and make head against Corr
wallis. The division Of Wayne came near
ma1inying when ordered to Virginia. II
was only during few months Of this year,
Q7S1,) when Washington was maneayerinv
% clrcumvent Carnwallis, and while he WIS
bssieging him In York, that any large nun
bsf Of Yankee troops ever came south ofttc
SasqnehannA 10 that siege. besides the |
regulars, Virginia sent six thousand ,nca.-
The South assisted the North on every other |
occasion, but this was the only one on which |
the North evss aAsiitcd the South. the ri.
nss q Morgan assisted largely To win the
ddd g easaAoga; bat no Yankee bayonet
aesisted Morgan to win the field OF the Cow
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