The age-herald., 1897-11-07

dered to ovsrtaI6e DeKalb and assume command, bringing some militia from Virginia.
 Colonel Marion with a1is ten men, all that he then commanded, rode forward to meet the advancing army in North Carolina. He struck the htld eff the column just as it crossed the Roanoke. DeKalb was in command. Gates over took the army that night. DeKafb 1n- vited Marion to dinner The menu was a Elnall piece of pork E.de, the fat wanting, no bread, not even conn pone, and a few ynms. The men in the ranks falred not that well. When Gates struck the Pedee Marion advised that he shou d take g. rather longer road to Cadngd n along which supplies for h's men could be had, but Gates took the sho.ter TOD d througih the pine barrens whena even green peaches, green apples and green conr were scarce, and no substitute available.
 When fhe 4,000 Americans und IT Gates met the 1000 British under Cornwalls Aug. 15, 17S0, near Camden, the Ameri- cans were weakened by starvation and dysertery to the last degree The Vir- ginia militia ran like sheep at the first onset of the Brit sh DeKalb and the coHtinentals stood their ground. DeKafb was mortally wounded and died next day. Gates had sbart;d Marion off elrly on the monnfng of the night on which he encountered Cornwallis to burn all the canoes and fatboalts on the Santee, to head off Cornwallls' expected retreat in that direction. General Sumter was on the ACharlest bon road ito head the British retreat off from that course.
 CornwalIis rena ined in Camden; Gates escaped to Charlotte. then on ito Hills boough, ard began to reorgan.ze his broken army.
 The tories, upon the defeat of Gats s, became active and desperate. Sumter in the central and western parts of the sbate and Marion in the east Tn pant, including 'Hlle Santec anf Pe1ae, pl, erStn tion regions, fought them incegsamtiy from covert to covert, from highway to highway, from dWelsing to dwelling, in squads and singly. Cornwa1hs soon found that he could not maintain nr1ny posts in the interior The men of Mario n and Sumter cut off all foraging parties and hung all tory spies they could lay their hands on.
 But the whole state was now affame with the energy of ithe whigs. Colonel Clarke marched with militia on the British post alt Augusta, but failed
 ColoDal Ferguson, with about 1,20O to- rfes, started out to cut off Clarke. About this time without pre-concer'l, some 160o whigS under one colonel from Virginia, five collonels from North Carolina and three coloncls from South Carolina came within reach of Ferguson. Ferguson for a defensive position had gone to the top of Kings Mountain. The whig colonels agreed to act together and attack him. The whigs could take aim to better ad- vantage from a lower to a higher posi> tion than the tories could in reverse or der. Ferguson was killed and his com mand captured Morgan won Cclwpens.
 Congress Sent Gen. Nathaniel Greene to South Carolina. He soon retreated to Virginia before Cornwallis. Cornwallis raised the royal standard att the capital of North Carolina, Hillsboro. and hum dreds rode there to accept his protec- ton. Greene ptassed back into North Carolina, fought the battle of Guilford Court House, March 12, 17S1. The mil- tia behaved badly. Cornwallis wen and started for Virginia. Greene returned to South Carolina.
 Colonel Marion heard eff ninety pris- oners that had been captured at Cam