The age-herald., 1897-11-07


 or two all the others went home, declar- dng they could remain away from their crops no longer. Soon after, Captain Jo- siah Wilson was ambushed near his home and shot to death. Colonel Wilson reported that he had hoped to get better militia, from Nansemond county. FIDty started under a captain, five deserted soon after the march began and the captain commanding assured him all the others would go back home within two days. Phillips and a number of his marauderS were shortly afterwards cap tured,- tried and hung by due process of law. He and his associates were of the lower class of people.
 The most desperate, revengeful and exhaustive conflict between whigs and tories took place in South Carolina. nentaIs with a few militia had driven off or destroyed Sir Peter Parker's fleet of ten ships and 270 guns in it's attempt to pass Fort Moultrie into the harbor of Charleston. This battle occurred June 2S, 1I76 and there was no more ssriouS fighting in the three most southern statc,s for two and a half years. Most of the continental or congress troops were. carried north. The South Carolina delegation in congress asked to have General Lincoln, a. New Englander, sent to command in those states. He came about the first of the year, 1779.
 The British captured Savannah. They and all things were serene in Georgga. the only effort of the kind attempted during the war. The governor started an express over the country with a mes sage in writing to the British command CT in the north that troops were wanted in Georgia. When the message was de- livered it read no troops were wanted and all things were serene in eGorgia. Some patriots had arrested the express s1,o o1xnr. l.te fFnff ir1 and had destroyed the message, but wrote another in the same hand ap- parently, sealed with the same seal ap- parently, released the express and start ed him unsuspic;ously on his way. Gen eral Lincoln collected an army of militia and took position up at Black Swamp, opposite Augusta. He sent Colonel Ash with 1,500 North Carolinians across the Savannah.
 Colonel Provost, of the British army, heard of the movement, marched fifty miles around Ash, surprised him, and routed his militia. Lincoln crossed to the Georgia side, Provost crossed imme- diately to the South Carolina side and made for Charls ston. Lincoln hurried back and while Moultrie, with 200 con- tinentals and some militia, checked the progress of Provost, Lincoln caught up with the invader as he reached the outsr Notifications of Charleston. There was an engagement on the suburbs of the town between the forces but the militia officers were tardy in executing their orders. The result was rather in favor of Provost, but he retired. Pravost's men robbed the country merciessly on their marches. Watson, the New Eng land youth, had ridden over the line of this march two years before. He says: "The road to Ashley river is de- Iightful. We passed many elegant seats, with gardens and grounds. We Do rd EH11inttfc a pni ipPnt residence and those of other planters in the distance on avenues cut through the woods"
 Count D'Estaign, of the French fleet, in the harbor of Savannah, came ashore and assisted General Lincoln in the ef- fort to .recapture Savannah. The as- sault was badly managed, and utterly failed. Count Pulaski, cn the American side, was mortally wounded and Ser geant Jasper, of Fort Moultrie fame also. Lincoln retreated within the forti- fications of Charleston with about 2,5O0 men. Sir Henry Clinton, with 5000 men beseiged him on the land side, while the British navy assisted from the bay. The siege stood about a month, when the city capitulated.
 Governor Rutledge. by advice of Lin coin. left the city before hand. Most of the militia left from time to time, as the siege continued. There were some l,500 soldiers to surrender, among whom were 295 commissioned officers, officers who did not go home with their men and who had come to offer their services at he outset not being able to induce any of their men to follow them. The cap itulation was signed May 12, 17SO. The citizens were paroled, but after awhile Lieutenant Governor Gadsden, BenJa- min Cudworth and forty to sixty other prominent men were sent in the nolo of a ship to St. Augustine and barbar- ouslv treated there. Clinton tok a part of his force to New York by sea, leav- ing lieutenant Genra9 Cornwalis With 4.000 men to be distributed by posts throughout the state. Colonel Tarlton, noted British partisan ana Ieauer ..,i ul tories, heard that Colonel Buford, with 35O infantry, was on the northern DOT der of the state coming to the rellef or Lincoln. He started with TOO men, most ly mounted met Buford at the Wa1- haws and demanded surrender. Bu, ford drew up his men in battle order ana refused He ordered that no gun pe fired until Tarleton's charging morse men were within ten yards. This oroer was fatal. The horsemen charged over and through Buford's lines. Buford then offered to surrender, Tarleton refused, hut continued to sabre and shoot the patriots until he had acomplished nor ribne massacre. ,a
 War in all its terrors to women ana children now began in South Caronna to continue without Interruption TOT two vears It's ravagss covered the whole territory within the g.ste lines, 5 NUria, O,,les east of Charleston thsrty and ouq mIiss s,s was 1.-The Huguenot seht ementt, F'rencn santee, where splendid plantations ,t,,.s 10 the number of parhaps sixty, lay cont sious to each other, several possessing hunf- dreds of Africau slaves. all rich and beautiful homes flor the owners Fmty miles or more farther was the Pedee settlement, younger ,thlan the other, put fruitful of great abundance to the cuI- tured and gallant population of whdgs who inhabited there.
 Lord Rawdon was sent to comnand ar Camden on the upper border of the French Sarttee settlement and rath'sr be- yond it. Nlajor McArthtir was sent to Cheraw on the Pedee. The tories be- came very numerous and aggressive un- der the impression that the state was conquered. The whigs grew more de- liant and resentful as forays from Gre raw and Camden stole their horses. burned their houses and destroyed their crops The whigs and tortes began a warfare without quarter Thomas Aver, of the Cheraws, went out to capture some bold tories who were depreda t.ng.