Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-11-18
From the Anne Arundel Advertiser
BATTLE OF HORN POINT.

Some of the readcfs of the Advertiser
who occasionally stroll across the new
bridge, and ramble over the narrow pen
insula between it and Back Greek, may
not be aware that they are traversing an
ancient battle ield. It was there that the
first blood ever shed n civil war in Mary.
land was poured our The sketch pub.
llished in our last shows that "Anne
Arundel Town or Annapolis. was frs
settled in 1649 by body Of Puritans from
Virginia. Charles the First having beel
beheaded about the same time, the puritan
settlers at Annapolis took advantage o.
the revolution in England to ignore the
authority Of the Lord Proprietor's govern.
ment established at St. Mary's. Governor
Stone charged the puritanic party of Anne
Arundel with drawing away the people
and leading them into faction, sedition ano
rebellion against Lord Baltimore y and
after some delay he began to make pre-
parations for reducing them to submission
Having collected and armed about two
hundred of the ycomanry of St. Mary's
county who were, willing to follow him, be
set out with his little army about the mid
die of March, 1854. to ''Anne Arundel
Town" He had collected also about a
dozen very small vessels. for the trans
portation of some of his forces, part OF
them marching along the bay shore, and
the vessels serving to ferry them across
the mouths of the rivers.
about the shutting in of the evening
on the Oath of March," Gov. Stone with
his little feet and army, arrived within
the outer harbor of Annapolis; and pro-
ceeded to land just within the mouth OF
Back Creek, which forms the south east
ern boundary of the Horn Point peninsu-
la. While Gov. Stone was landing his
men the Puritans opened fire upon them
from the decks of the Golden Lion a
merchant ship then lying at anchor in the
inner harbor. In consequence of this, the
Governor moved his vessels further up the
creek during the night.
The next morning (March 25th) be ap-
peared with his small army, in military
array. on the narrow neck of land just op-
posite the town, and most probably about
the spot on which the recent Tournament
was held. The Puritans on the Golden
Lyon again brought their guns to bear,
and firing at them killed one man. forcing
them to march further up the neck. In
the meantime the Puritan army number
ing a hundred and twenty-five men under
one Capt. Fuller had marched around the
head of Spa Greek in order to take the
royalists in the rear. The. following ac-
count of the battle is the words of Mr..
Leonard Strong, puritan and an eye wit
ness of the fight.
'.On the approach of the puritans. the
sentry of the people of St. Mary's or Ma
rylanders, fred his alarm gun. when the
men of Gov. Stone Immediately appeared
in order. Capt. Fuller then set up the
standard of the Commonwealth of Eng
land. against which the enemy shot five
guns, and killed one man in the front, be-
fore shot was made by the other. Then
the word was given, lin the name of God
fall on; God Is our strength That was
the word for the puritans. The Mary
landers' word was,--Hey for Saint
Maries!
The charge was fierce and sharp for the
time; but through the glorious presence
Of the Lord Of Hosts, manifested in and