The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-10-22
mand of Buford, and while returning
home many were cut to pieces.


We are at loss to know which to
censure most, Colonel Buford for his mis-
management, or Colonel Tarletou for his
cruelty. It is admitted by the Americans
that some of them laid down their arms,
while others kept up an Intellectual fire.
It was declared, while the slaughter was
going on, that Tarleton was killed. This
incensed the British, and they hewed the
Americans to pieces without mercy.
On the morning of the 9Oth, those OF
the Americans who we're so badly
wounded that they "were not able to
travel, were," Colonel Tarleton says, "pa.
rolled and placed at the neighboring plan
tations, and in meeting house not far
distant from the battlefield" The
wounded from Chester County were in
few days removed to their homes. On
the way home, however, number of the
wounded became so weak that they were
deposited in Waxhaw Presbyterian
Church. Here some died and were bur-
led in the graveyard.
The meeting house, not far distant from
the battlefield, in which Colonel Tarleton
placed some of the wounded, was an AS.
sociate Church within, perhaps, four
hundred yards of the battlefield. The
probability is that the spring used until
lately by Mr.. S. E. Usher was the meet
ing house spring. This meeting house
was also called Waxhaw, and so was the
whole country from short distance north
of Camden. The meeting house, not far
distant from the battle field, WAS one of
the places at which Rev. Thomas Clark,
NJ. D., preached as early as 1863. Some
of the families with whom the wounded
were placed by Tarleton, were Usher,
Barkley, Hull, Montgomery, Nelson,
Porter, Galloway, Carnes, and others for
gotten.
Thirty.6ve or forty years ago, q plain
marble monument, seven and half feet
high and eighteen inches square at the
base, was erected to the memory OF those
Americans who fell in the battle, and
rude wall of flint stones placed around
the grave in which eighty.four of them
were buried. On the east side of this
monumental shaft is the following in.
scription
"Nearly the entire command of Col.
Buford were either killed or wounded.
"a gallant soldiers are buried in this
grave. They left their homes for the re-
lief of Charleston, but hearing, at Cam
den, of the surrender of the city, were
returning. Here their lives were ended
in the service of their country"
On the South side is inscribed
Erected to the memory and in the
honor of the brave and patriotic Ameri-
can soldiers who fell in the battle which
occurred at this place on the 29th of
May, 1850, between Colonel Abraham
Buford, who commanded regiment of
$50 Virginiaus, and Colonel Tarleton, of
the British army, with $50 cavalry and
like number of infantry"
The inscription on the North side is:
"The cruel and barbarous massacre
committed on this occasion by Tarleton
and his command, after the surrender of
Colonel Buford and his regiment, origi-
mated the American war cry: Remember
Tarleton's quarters. A British histo-
rian confesses at this battle, the virtue
of humanity was totally forgot
Some of the statements contained in
these inscriptions vary from the etate-
ments made by both American and Brit
ish historians. Evidently the number of
Tarleton's forces are greatly exaggerated,
while those of Buford are greatly dimin-
ished.
The massacre of Buford's forces arous.
ed the Scotch Irish settlers of Chester,
York and Lancaster, and the result was
that the British we're defeated at Will
liamson's, Kings Mountain, the Cowpen
and Yorktown.-R. LATHAM, IN YORK.
vIle Enquirer.