The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-13

overrun and conquered limiting our at
tention now to the period between the fall
Of Charleston and the coming of Greene;
that is, between the 18th of May. of 1880,
and the LIST OF January, 1881, besides the
battles in which Continental troops took
part, including Gates defeat and rout Al
Camden on South Carolina soil alone the
partisan bands of these States-indolent
Southerners-without government be-
hind them. or the slightest assistance from
Congress, fought twenty eight battles, in
which they put hors de combat 2,67o OF
the enemy at a loss to themselves OF but
SOC? Can Mr. Ford show where and when
the energetic yeomen OF the North did as
much? Does he recollect that during that
time Washington stood powerless in the
Jerseys because he did not have, on the
3rd of June, but $3.50 men, rank and file,
in his whole army, and the yeOmanry OF
the North would not come to his assist
ance? Ii he does not, will he refresh
his memory by reading again Washing
tons letters of the time? Will Mr. Ford
stop to think what this uprising in the
Carolinas, and to some extent in Georgia,
meant to the whole country? Mr.. Ford
may not remember or, indeed, may not
have heard of, the two battles at Cedar
Springs, of Flat Rock, Rocky Mt, Hang
ing Rock, MIsgrove's HILL Nelson's Fer
ry, Fishdam and Biackstock, and others,
all fought in South Carolina? But, surely.
he must have heard of Kings Mountain,
the elimination OF these affairs, one of
the most decisive battles Of the war. Has
he never read of the meeting between
Lord RawdOn, from Camden, and Balfour,
from Charleston, in the spring of 1871.
when Balfcur informed his Lordship that
the whole low country was in arms
against them? 1t was indeed the uprising
CT the people Of the Carolinas. assisted
by GeOrgians and Tennesseeans, and at
Kings Mountain by these, and by Vir-
ginians. which broke up and frustrated
the grand plan of campaign, arranged in
London, by which CORVALLIS was to have
marched from South to North, increas
ing his army as he advanced, until meet
ing Leslie. in Virginia, whom Sir Henry
Clinton sent to Portsmouth to cooperate
with him; the combined force was to
sweep on, growing as it marched, to
Baltimore, and thence r0rthward TO
strike Washington, whom Henry Clinton
would hold in New Jersey while the great
movement from the South was going on
a campaign which will at once be recog
nzed as the prototype of that of the
Federal army in 1865. 1t may have been
that had the Carolinas submitted, as it
is alleged that they did. and had Corn
wallis reached Virginia in $780, that the
| uprising which took place in South Caro-
lima would have taken place in that
State, and probably it would, and the
movement may have been ultimately de-
! feated there; but the chances against
such a successful effort, in that case,
would have acquired probably too great
momentum to have been resisted. AS
/ it was the partisan bands of the Caro-
| linas checked the triumphal march after
| Gates defeat forced back CORVALLIS from
| North Carolina, where he was advancing
upon Salisbury, to Winnsboro, South
Carolina, and detained him there for
three months until Leslie could be with
drawn from Virginia to reinforce him
by way OF Charleston.
With the year 1881 Greene came to
reap the results of what had been SO far
accomplished by Sumter, Davie, Marion,
Mcdowell Clarke. Shelby, Sewer and
Campbell, and the unpaid gentlemen of
the Carolinas.'' He came, but brought to
the assistance CT the volunteer bands of
these States no reinforcnments to the
ragged remnants of Gates defeated ar
my Then was fought the battle OF
Cowpens, entirely by Southerners i. e.,
the remains of the Maryland and Della
ware line, Washington's together with the
volunteers from Georgia and the Caro-
linas and Virginia, under Pickens and
Mcdowell. OF this hard fought battle and
great victory surely Mr.. Ford must have
heard something, and must now recall
that on that field, at least, there was
some opposition to the advance of the
British. Has he heard nothing of Ram
seur's Mill, Guiltord Court House. Hob
kinks Hill, of the sieges of Fort Watson,
Of Fort Motto and of Ninety-Six, the bat
ties of Orangeburg and MOncks Corner,
the siege OF Augusta, and the last great
battle of the war, at Eutaw? The names
Of Sumter and Marion are famed through
out this broad land; when and where did
they achieve their fame if not in South
Carolina, in resistance to the British in
vasion after the fall of Charleston?
Another most curious blunder is found
on page sos. In the closing scenes of the
siege of Yorktown Col. Brereton, the hero
of the novel, who enters the works with
CORVALLIS and questioned by him as to
, the terms he might hope to obtain from
Washington and is made to reply: "If
the talk of the camp be of value, my
Lord, it is said you are to be granted the
exact terms you allowed General Lincoln
at Savannah and you yourself cannot but
acknowledge the justice of such treat
ment."
The incident here alluded to took place
at the fall of Charleston on the 18th of
May, 1880, and not at Savannah. Savan-
nah was taken on the Goth of December,
177S, by that gallant soldier, Gel. Archi-
bald Campbell. Lord CORVALLIS was
never in Savannah. Gen. Lincoln did not
command in Savannah at that time, Gen.
Howe did. 1t was not Lord CORVALLIS
who dictated the terms to Lincoln at
Charleston, but Sir Henry Clinton. Sir
Henry deputed Lord CORVALLIS, his next
in command, to receive Lincoln's sword,
and SO Washington, in retaliation, deput-
ed Lincoln to receive Cornwallis's.
But l must curtail this communication
already too long, ! fear. Let me recall
Mr.. Fords attention to a chronological list
of battles, etc, given in an appendix
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