Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-12-21
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-. MORssAN,s RETREAT. ss;snD ],
shc most csebrated retreat % record, IS
Of lie tsnthoIsand Greeks Who had es.
fIf! ssdd the calss 81 Cyrus, the younger, in
I'LL Expedition Igainst his brother Artaxerxes.
Ain 1he deatl Of Cyrus, these ten thousand
Gr{Sks cut tleirt way through an enemy's
!; crou{itry; and eturned to their native land.
SaJsonderful iias this retreat, that IL isa bis.
gssttaIly desiaatsd 'ss the "Retreas Of the
! tn thousand s.. 81 i, +, .,.,.,,,,,ts ts,4s, ~
Il ID II the Gress, the retreat Of General Nor.
& gantroY The Cwpens, and the subsequent re,
81 treat a Geners Greene through North Cur,
3 olinj and oyerths Dan, into Virginia, is no
leaa.samarkable Since ''it Is .distance that.
lend enchantmpt to the view,"', We have no
douk but somelay, in the future history ,sof
thu sorld,, The Iofgan and Gfeenes retreat
willsclipse thatf Xenophon. ss5 ~ #,-g., -
. TAs batslesp 81 be Cowpens was fought, saas
stated, x1the 18th Of January ! 78l.
fns esflies beg about nins o'clock in the
mornings That same evening, Earl Corn
}twy,alIiis ssinfdrmed Of Tarleton's defeat. On
the day after the battle fthe Cowpens, Gen.
! Eeslis formed i junction with Earl CORVALLIS
ID York county on the plantation Of John
Hhlhouss, nov owned in part By Samuel c.
I YoupabiSod. The. British camp was in front
Of the resdenceof Mr.. Youngblood. b Colonel
4 Tarletons sncamped on Broad river near
Harniitot ford. Tradition says that several
j of b;s sDsdiers who had been wounded At the
i CooFpensa lied At Hamilton's ford, and we're
buried II Fland now belong to Junius; w.
ThompsH Not many years since, tits rela'
ted thai Hose cultiyating these lands exhumed
human nbnss,s which in all probability we're
.the rsinans of some soldier who died from
w,opads saicted by Morgan's men. sbz.e
@ Lsna sftsr t6s var was over and prosperity
had sffaced the devastation. caused by the
(. Britil larmy, in it's progress through the. coun.
try, spairIofsilver sleeve buttons, upon which
wore Engraved the initials of British officers
nsms we're found near Samuel c. Young.
!. bIOaass fehtess relics Of the times that "tried
.ssnens souls, Fare in the possession of some
one IL Chester. To the mind that is fond of
revehing inthe past, these things possess an
/! ints,est which can be better felt than describ-
ed. strange and indescribabe feeling per-
vades esthe soul When we stand upon theground
when once canned a British army. Every
I movement made ether by the army of the pa.
triots or 81 their Aasmies, is full Of interest.
On The afternoon Of the memorable day
ON which Morgan idefsated Farleton at the
Cosps6s Morgan s,t out to cross Broad riy.
er Susitt detachment was left under the
! cuasss . 5s5srooss1 f'SEshs q bury fhs
deS & Roth armies ed make provisions for
tbsS..s.sI [ Of ,sFF ,sF soHded. On the evening
: afer the battle Morga crossed Broad river
atpve the Soutt Carol = line, and by forced
mlrches, on a rpte lsaings him over thespot
wlere Kings buntaii station, on the Air
Line Railroads. nov located, he passed
through the laer EIDE Of Cleveland and
CASTOR countis, and cRssed the Catawba at
the Island Fro Hell, through couriers,
an srrangemet had beeim made between Gen.
eral Greene AMI Glneral torgau fora confer
Tsuee Morga. crossed To Catawba on the
S9shof Janufy. His d rch had been slow,
q On zccount ofthe numb& Of prisoners and
baagage captred from be British at the
Coxpens. i 49,. .r........t
S. soon as larl Cornwais heard of Tarle-
tp4s defeat, WITH a heavyaeart he began to
,inake arrangements for is advance into
lyoEth Careli1. During lis stay at Winns-
y 6larGana asa fss fin Winnsboro to
Turkey creeIe The had coltted large num-
Der horses These wtsgathered up by
.hsttories, 'po were. gnEally experts in
hotae-stealine An orgsied band of these
dePsedators lfested the ontry. Their head
quatsers wason the weaen side Of Broad
riyenin the present coun!bf Newberry.
ohsthe night after the, title of the Cow
pens, General Leslie eu,epped on Sandy
river, in Gbeater county. he next day Les.
lie marched IBIS forces inis camp of Corn.
wallis. Itbad already bet determined by
CORVALLIS to push forwardand, if possible,
prevent Morgan from cro4ng the Catawba.
Arsngeme1ts were made mount the SOL
des AND convert the VILE British forces
under his command into liat infantry. 1t
was thu dead of winter anahe roads, where
there were any, were in witched condition.
hs-e6unsry over which theshad to pass was
broken, and roads had to b9Aut. The coun-
try was sparsely settled, az, consequently,
provisions scarce. Cornwlis, whilst en-
amped at Hillhousss (noS Y3ung6lood's|
bgan to grow disheartenee aad when he
bard of Tarlston's defeat ashe Cowpens his
bpes of subduing the county almost failed.
de met with fewfriends amSgstithe inhab-
jtants, and the. Whia pr,owl around
is9n 2nd, like Arabs,
his camp and
palls had his
road, opposite