The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-14
SIAIN IN SINGLE COMBAT
rs Military Career in the War of
the Revolution.
-gY SON OF A SCOTTISH NOBLEMAN
n-.lnent Erected to His Memory in 1893 b,
Clifford Battle Ground Company of Green's
boro. Sketch Of His Life by Mar
snail De Lancey Haywood.

On The old Revolutionary battlefield
NJ c1.Iford court house, near Greensboro,
IN this State, are many noble memorials
of american heroes and heroism-
tho statue Of Joseph Winston, mark
sr. the place where he and his brave
volunteers so long fought the Hessians
and TarIetOn's cavalry; the massive
granite boulder with its bronze tablets,
sent by Maryland to commemorate the
deeds of her soldiery; the statue of
N.4l4m Hooper, Signer CT the DecIara-
lion of Independence; monuments to
SIMMER. Dixon, Dawes, and other North
Cgro.tnians.
Nor. while commemorating the prowess
of our own troops, has the Guilford bat
lie ground company neglected to preserve
The memCry of a brave officer who lost
his life on the same field while fighting
Inder Lord CORVALLIS. AS one stands
NV the Maryland monument ana gazes
in a uOrtheasterly direction across an
cgen space where the battle once ragged,
he VIII see in a little ravine, about three
hundred yards distant, a small shaft Of
white marble, erected in 1898, Gin honor
OF q brave foeman,' Lieutenant Colonel
James Stuart, of the Queens Guards.
As this gentleman, both by reason OF
birth and personal achievements, was
we'll known in his day and generation.
a few notes concerning his career may
be Of some interest now. In Burke's
Peerage 1885 edition, p. 144), he is per-
s0nalIy mentioned, together with the
battle where he was slain. He was the
son Of Robert Stuart, seventh Baron of
B"Iantyre. in Scotland. The latter's father
was active in pront2ting the English
Revolution of 1858, and another ancestor
was Lord High Treasurer Of Scotland.
Colonel Stuart was also ~lineally descend
ii from Sir John Stuart, Of Mimic, slain
at the battle of Flodden, where
no Scottish foot went
When the Royal Lion fell"
After the American olonies had de-
c.1red their independence and when
Great Britain was attempting 70 regain
them by force, Northumberland Stuart,
o. whom this sketch treats, was one Of
the officers sent over by King George
70 aid in restoring royal authority. By
his bravery and merit he con gained a
high reputation among his comrades
At Guilford, after the Wbunding OF
General Charles O'Hara, he placed him
self at the head of the Second Battalion
Of. Guards, and with these troops com
pletely routed the Second Maryland reg
meDt. But his triumph was of short
duration. for Colonel William Washing
ton, OF the cavalry, was soon engaged in
Z furious charge on his rear. In his adj
mirable work on our States Revolution
airy history, (Which every true NORTH
LaT0linian should read, Judge Schencl
says: washington had hardly passed
like a destroying angel, through this de-
voted regiment of gallant Englishmen
in this valley of death, before the FRS
Maryland arrived on the scene. 1
wheeled to the South and rushed like {
"hlrIwind on Stuart's left flank, bearing
down all before it, slaughtering it's vic.
TINS and piling up its sacrifices as i
rolled on. But still Stuart refused t
ny. He stood like a lion at bay and re
PEELED the fury of his adversaries."
The death Of Stuart was the result o
Il h3nd-tO-hand combat, in this battle
with Captain John Smith, Of Maryland
In d former fight these officers had en-
co1ntered each other but were separated
h The confusion of the conflict. Boil
mad expressed the wish that they Nigh
meet again, and this wish was gratjfiet
p, GuIIford court house. Of Colone
>uarts death, We find in Johnson's Lift
Nr-E- al GREENE, d UIlluIe dCCouht
'af'ly quoted by Judge SGhneck), whlcl
says. Two cOnbatants particularly al
dAc'ed the attention of those aroun'
laem. These were Colonel Stuart, of tn
Da7rds, and Captain John Smith, Of tn
Narvlanders-both men CONSPICUOUS TO
nerve and sinew. They had also me
""."re on some occasion. and had vowe'
..". their next meeting would end i
'#'.l. Iteg4rilPSS of the b~aVOnotS tina
were c~lashing around them, they rushe
" taG2 other with a fury that admitte
" hut one result. The quick pass Q
.''ft small sword was skillfully pu
't "'sh the left hand, whilst the heav
'@'Fr Of his antagonist cleft the Britai
" We spine. In one moment the Amerl
,.- was PROSTATE on the lifeics3 bod
w ITS enemy; and in the next, was press
wv beneath the weight Of the soldie
@'' haI brought him TO tho grount
are not Imaginary ncident5-the
related on the best authority.
. discharged at Smiths head as HI
sword descended on that Of Stuart, ha
F'a1ed it and brought him q tn
t.-'hd. at the instant that the bayone
d %laForite soldier, who always sough
' side Of his captain in the hour {
Hanger. pierced the heart of one VIII
appears to have been equally watchf'
.he safety of the British colonel,
"'t were two captain John Smith
III The Maryland line. The one who sic
@laart wos known as the Hero Of Hob
+'h. and, after the Revolution, Pres
Adams gave him a commission
armament against France, when W.
mat country was expected.
IA'6, eighty-fve years after til
OF Colonel Stuart, a negro lahore
.'.'" crossing the old battlefield. notice
inject protruding from the side
N'Ay' and dug it out. 1t proved to
word, cncased in a scabbard Of &c
.' aver. Except a portion of the hi
'''.'1Iy ~leather) which had rotted o
N almost a perfect state of pre-
''''Ion, owing to the protection of Il