The Monitor., 1891-04-17
HISTORY OF SALEM COUNTY.
Collection of most Interesting
Facts. traditions. Anecdotes. Etc.
Relating IN ms History and
Antiquities.
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This party had scarcely moved. when
the enemy laid the bridge and passed it;
detachment of them went immt diateiy
,cruss the marsh 10 the heights on the
left, but the principal ally, about two
hundred, i'll two divisions, proceeded up
the road: Captain Stephenson. as they ap-
pros ched the house, could hear them say,
Let us go into the house" &c, but they
were prevented, both by words and by
action. BIZ the officer who was at the II
head; he was on horseback, and squirting
forward, quilted the road to go INTO the
field, on the right, through a vacancy
made by the rails beiug taken for ii es;
his party still proceeded up the road, and
the first division passed the house; the
officer. his sight still fixed on the red
clothes Of the 18th, approached close up
10 the fence where Captain Saunders lay;
he did not Immediately observe the
Rangers, and. it is probable, he might not,
had he not heard Que Of the men sitting
laugh; looking down he saw them, and
galloped off; he was fired at, wounded.
aud taken. The division that had passed
the house attempted to return. Captain
Stephenson sailed, drove them across the
fields. Captain Saunders pursued them.
The Huzzars were let loose, and afterward
the battalion. Colonel MANHOOD leading
them. Major SimoOe directed the 17,il
back to the house, with the grenadicrs and
Highauders of the Rangers, ready to
force the bridge, il ordered; the enemy,
for a moment, Quilted il; Colonel Nav
hood thought it useless to pass it. Some
of the division, who passed the house,
were taken prisoners, but the greater part
were drowned IN the Aloes creek. The
officer who was taken proved to be
Frencbman. The Rangers had one HUI
gar mortally wounded; and what was un-
fortunate, he was wounded by a man
whom in the eagerness of the pursuit he
had passed, given quarters to, aud not
disarmed; the villain, or coward, was
killed by another Huzzar. The corps re.
turned to Salem.
The rebels stll occupying the posts at
Qunton and Hancock S bridge, and prob
ably accommodating, Colonel Mawhood de-
termiued to attack them at the latter,
" here. from all reports, they were assem-
bled to near foar hundred men. He in.
trusted the enterprise to Major Simcoe
and went with him and patrole opposite
to the place: the Major ascended tree,
and made rough sketch OF the buildings,
which, by conversine With the guides, he
improved into a tolerable plan of the
place, and formed his mode OF attack ac
cordingly He embarked on the Goth, at
night. on hoard the flatboats he was to be
landed at an iulet, seven miles below Aloes
creek, when the boats were Immediately
to be returned. and by private road he
Was to reach Hancock's bridge, opposite
to which. Major Mitt b Ill was detached
with the 9th regiment, to cooperate with
him. Major Simcoe forsaw the difficult
ties aud dangers, but kept them to him.
self; every thing depended upon surprise
Tue enemy were nearly double his num-
bers; aud his retreat, by the absolute orders
to send back the boats, was cut off; but
he had just confidence in the silence, at
tention. aud spirit OF the corps. By some
strange error i'll the naval department,
when the boats arrived off Aloes creek,
the tide set SO strong against them that,
in the opinion of the officer of the navy,
they conld not reach the place OF their
destinstiOn till midday. Major Simcoe
determined not to return. but 30 lend on
the marshes at the mouth OF the AIoes
creeh; there were good guides with him;
they found out a landing place, and after
u march OF two miles through marshes.
up to their knees in mud and water, labors
rendered more fatiguing BY the carriage
Of the first wooden planks they met With,
to form bridges with them over the bitches,
they at length arrived at a wood upon dry
land. Here the corps vas formed for the