Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-19

DenSe. 10 SuDcf0UmefdflcS, anu tdCli man iidt
permission to take a wife over with hlm, anC
to draw pay and ratiOns for her. Early in May
1913, ? or companies, under command o.
Lieutenant Colonel James Cochran, came
over, and dsembarking at Charleston, wen
direct from that place to Frederlca, on st
SimOn's Island, where fort had already peer
built. Oglethorpe followed soon after witt
the remaining companies, leaving England OF
the LIST of July and arriving at st. Slmons Oh
the 18th of September.
4 list of the officers of this select body is not
TO be found in any published account OF the
colony of Georgia, so far as | have been aDlt
to learn; but through the kindness OF an Eng
lish gentleman ca clergyman of the Church OF
England. who is deeply Interested III the ms
tory of Georgia during the colonial period,
am now able to present such list, as copied
bv the Rev. II. w. Carr, from "A Book OF
Army Commissions from lI2S To lI4l IN the
Record Office in London, as follows:
James Oglethorpe, Colonel of regiment OF
foot.
James Cochran, Lieutenant Colonel.
VIM. Cook, Major.
Hugh Mackay, Captain.
Richard NOrbury, Captain.
Alex. Heron, Captain.
Albert Desbrisay, Captain.
Philip Delegall. Senior. Lieutenant.
Philip Delegall, Junior, Lieutenant.
Raymond Demere, Lieutenant.
George Moran The rank not stated.
win Horton, Ensign.
James Mackay, Ensign.
VIM. TOlsOn. Ensign.
John Tanner, Ensign.
John Leman. Ensign.
SandfOrd Mace, Ensign.
Hugh Mackay, Adjutant.
Edward Dyson, Clerk and Chaplain
Thomas Hawkins Surgeon.
Edward Wansall, Quartermaster.
OF the chaplain will mention, IN passing,
that he Offcated in the church at savannah
for short time while il was without pastor.
William stephens, in his journal of the Pro
ia of
sunday, December 4, 1877, says: THE church
being destitute, Mr.. Dyson Chaplain TO the
Independent company at st. Slmons), now IN
town, with leave of the Magistrate, volun
tarily oniciated for the day" From the same
account he appears to have occupied the pull
pit here until the following April.
On the 3lst of March Good Friday this
entry is made: Mr.. Dyson performing the
ofice of the dav to such as Thought good to at
tend it, was taken i'll suddenly, and forced to
break of before he could go through with 1t.
1t seems. then, that MIR. Dyson came over TO
Georgia before the arrival of the first detach-
ment of the regiment. and was acting as
Chaplain to a single company stephens thus
mentions the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel
Cochran on the 9th of May: This morning
about 8, was most agreeably surprised when
at opening my door | saw Colonel Cochran,
whom j0yfully saluted. lie left the trans
ports, which he quilted at good distance of
the bar Yesterday evening, and, betaklng him.
self to the boat, rowed up in the night"
Ogethorpe, in one of his letters thus speaks
of his surgeon:
DIR. Hawkins tells me that he has sent you
vouchers to prove his demands, which, when
ne sent his last accounts to the trustees, he did
not think it was necessary to trouble them
with, but offered them at savannah | TO
well know that he has attended the sick very
carefully. and that he constantly went up to
Daricn when | was here, and suppose he did
so when | was not. 1t is no little thing to go
in open boats, in all weathers, near 20
miles and no small expense to hire men and
I.utt will p m
from the evidence he has sent over and desire
YOU would put them in clear light to the
trust. for though he Is very capable OF DONG
his duty Us surgeon, he Is very ignorant III ac-
counts
OF the memorable repulse of the Spaniards
in their attack upon st. SimOn's Island in the
summer Of 1912 and the gallant conduct OF
Ogiethorpe's regiment, the best account is the
report of General OglethOrpe himself, which
is to be found in full in the third volume of the
collections OF the Georgia Historical Society.
Col. Jones, in his sketch of Frederick, also
gives GglethOrpe's account of this attack. and
adds these words: THAT a small force of be-
tween 800 and 200 men. assisted by few weak
vessels, should have put to flight an army OF
nearly 1900 Spanish troops, supported by a
powerful fleet, and amply equipped Tor the
expedition. seems almost incapable Of eN-
PLANTATION" Whitefela said of the vic
tory: ''The deliverance Of Georgia from
the Spaniards is such as cannot be
paralleled but by some instances out
of the Old Testament The Spanish troops,
all told, amounted to 1000 men, and Ogie-
thOrpe's command comprised 65a persons. of
which 472 belonged to his regiment. The ac-
count is very long. and will give only some
extracts from it: THE Spanish invasion which
has long time threatened the colony, Caro-
lima, and all North America has at last fallen
upon us, and God hath been our deliYerance.
General HOrcasilas, Governor of the Havan-
nah ordered those troops who had been en-
ployed against General Wentworth to embark,
with artillery and everything necessary, upon
wifi a
fleet By good. great fortune,
one Of the half galleys was WRECKED coming
out. The fleet sailed for ST Augustine, in
Florida The HaVannah fleet,
being joined by that of Florida, COM
posed 81 sail. with land men on board =;
they were separated, and | received advice
from Captain Dunbar that span
ish fleet of Il sail had attempted to come in
there, but being drove out by the cannon of
the fort and schooner they came in at Cum
berland sound. J sent over Captain Horton TO
land the Indians and troops on Cumberland.
| followed myself and was attacked in the
sound. but with two boats fought my way
through. Lieutenant FOLSOM; who was to
have supported me with the third and strong
est boat. quilted me in the tight and run
into river, where he hid himself till
next day, when he returned to st. SimOn's
with an account that | was lost but soon after
found. | was arrived there before him, for
which misbehaylor l put MN IN arrest
and ordered him to be tried. The enemy in
this action suffered much that the day af-
ter they ran out to sea ana returned Tor ST.
Augustine and did not join their great fleet
until after their grenadiers were beat by land.
II drew the garrison from ST. Andrews, re-
inforced Fort William and returned to ST..
SimOn's with the schooner.
"Another Spanish fleet appeared the 2Sth
of the bar, BY Gqd's blessing = delayed
their coming in till the 18th of July. raised
another troop OF rangers.
II took Captain Thompson's ship into the
service = | embargOed all the vessels
fol
large gifts and promises to the Indians so that
every day we increased in numbers:
On the 9Th of July 10 SAL OF spanish
vessels ran into the harbor in line of battle.
1--WE cannonaded them very hotly from the
shining and batteries. They twice attempted
to board Capt. Thomson, but were repulsed.
They also attempted to board the schooner,
but were repulsed by Capt. Dunbar with a
detachment Of the regiment ON board.
II being Impossible for me to do
my duty as General and be constantly with the
saTy for His Majesty's service to have Lieu
tenant Colonel present. therefore
appointed Major Heron Lieutenant Colonel.
THE spaniards, after an obstinate engage
batteries bate Ga and and Shipping and got out Of shot
of them towards Frederica. Our guard
sloop was disabled and sunk; one
Of 'onr " batteries blown up, and also
some of Our men aboard Capt. Thomson,
upOn which called council Of war at the
head of the regiment, where 1t was qnani-
mously resolved to march to FREDERICK, to get
there before the enemy and defend that place
: We arrived at FREDERICK and the
enemy landed at st. Simon's. On the eth a
party of theirs marched toward the town.
! - | advanced with Il party of Indians,
rangers and the Highland company, ordering
the regiment to follow. | charged
them at the head of our Indians, Highland
men and rangers. and God was pleased to give
us such success that we entirely routed the
first party. took one Captain prisoner and
killed another, and pursued them to an open
meadow or savanna, upon the edge of which
posted three platOons Of the regiment and the
company of Highland foot. This dis
position was feFy fortunate. Captain An
tonic Barba and two other Captains, with one
hundred grenaders and two hundred foot,
besides Indians and negroes, advanced into
the savanna with huZZahs and fired with great
spirit, but not seeing our men, by reason of
the woods, none of their shot took place, but
ours did.
~, hearing the firing, rode toward it
met great many men 10 disorder who told
me that ours were routed and Lieutenant
Sutherland killed. | ordered them to halt
and march back against the enemy, which
orders Captain Demere and Ensign Glbbon
Obeyed, but another officer did not, but made
the best of his way to town. AS | heard the
fire continue / concluded our men could not
be quite beaten therefore spuf1ed