Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-21
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How the Spirit of Liberty Was Kept Alive BY an
UncOnquerable People
From the Yorkville Enquirer Of 1871
INSTALLMENT XIV.
Capture of Patrick Moore and the Bat
tie of Cedar Springs.

tie of Cedar Springs.
After the fall of Charleston. the mair
army of the British marched through
the state, by the way of Camden and
thence to Charlotte, North Carolina
If we will lay a map Of the state OF
South Carolina before us, we will see
that the route Of CORVALLIS was neal
the centre Of the state. His path led
through a rich country, comparatively
well cultivated and settled by as de-
termined Wings as were in America
In his march he passed through OF
near the counties Of Williamsburg
Sumter, Kershaw, Lancaster, Fairfield
Chester and York.
No other route could have been chos-
EN- by the British which would have
led them through as many and as
strong Whig settlements. The Revolu-
tionary record Of Williamsburgh is the
brightest in America. Every other
section Of the thirteen colonies had a
a few Tories and loyalists; but Will
liamsburg had only a single individual
who was the friend Of King George.
AS might have been expected, the
march of Cornwallis through the state
greatly encouraged the Tories and
loyalists in all sections Of the country.
From the Savannah to the Potomac,
10y and gladness pervaded the breasts
Of this class of citizens. The Wings
were made to suffer, but 1t can hardly
be said that they were dispirited. 1t
was a dark day but the Wings did not
cease to hope. In fact, misfortune only
nerved them to prompt and energetic
action. Old men whose heads were
blossoming for the grave, forgetting the
ravages which time had made upon
their constitutions, shouldered their
rifles, and with the elastic step of
youth, FASTENED to meet the foe.
Beardless boys followed their fathers
to the camp; and mothers and maidens
took hold Of the handles Of the plow.
Whilst the men and boys fought, the
women titled the fields and reaped the
harvests.
From the 18th of May, 1880, to the
7th of October. Of the same year, the
Wings of Georgia, upper South Carroll
ma and western North Carolina, had
been watching the British with the
anxiety which a crouched lion watches
his prey. After the fall Of Charleston,
the Wings Of Georgia and western
South Carolina sought refuge-some
,A.f knnWn oG Manklan-
burg and Rowan counties, North Car
olina, and others found a safe retreat
in the valley of Nollichucky, in the
homes of Colonels William Campbell,
John Sewer, and Isaac Shelby. These
noble men opened up their homes for
the reception of those Wings who had
been made homeless by the foe and
with these Whig neighbors, they long
ed for a At opportunity to avenge the
wrongs of their countrymen.
So soon as Colonel afterwards gen.
eraD Charles Mcdowell of Burke coun-
ty, North Carolina, heard of the fall
of Charleston and the contemplated
advance of the British he determined
to raise a force and throw himself in
front Of the advancing foe. To effect
this, he sent a requisition to Col. Isaac
Shelby, of what was then known as
Sullivan county, North Carolina, (now
Tennessee) for all the men he could
raise. Shelby was in Kentucky sur
veying lands for Henderson & Co. When
he heard of the fate of the army under
Gen. Lincoln and the fall of Charles
ton. he determined to lay his compass
and chain aside and again gird on his
sword, never again to take it off un-
til his country was free. In July, he
requisition made by Mcdowell. He
went to work with all the energies of
his great soul and in a short time
raised a body of three hundred mount
ed rifemen in Sullivan county.
On the 18th of March-two months
prior to the fall of Charleston-the
citizens of Washington county, North
Carolina, had met and raised force
of one hundred men to be sent to Gen.
Rutherford, to assist South Carolina.
1HSSS llOOpS W NiAS ASsNN Na'N~N
Gen. Rutherford was hurried off soon
er than he was expected, did not leave
Washington county. In the summer
they with probably some others, under
the command of Lieutenant Colonel
John Sewer and the three hundred
mounted rifiemen from Sullivan coun-
ty under Col. Isaac Shelby, Joined Col
Mcdowell near the Cherokee ford on
Broad river
Patrick Ferguson, a major in the
British regular army and brigadier
general Of the loyal militia, had been
ordered by CORVALLIS into the Ninety
Six district. for the purpose of arous-
ing the loyalists and Tories to action
Patrick Ferguson was by birth a
Scotchman and son of the distinguish
ed iurist, James Ferguson and nephew
of Lord Elibank-Patrick Mury. Dur
ing the siege of Charleston and at the
battle of Brandywine, Patrick Ferguson
had distinguished himself. He was
skillful and energetic officer and
braver man never lived.
After ISOlS Id IL 80 ASii iA'NS >''>
hands of the enemy, Col. Elijah
Clarke, with about one hundred Wings
fled from Georgia to the settlements
beyond the mountains. Here among
the inhabitants of the Watauga anC
Holston. Clarke and his confederate'
found warm friends. The glowing
narrations of these refugee Wings from
Georgia, kindled into a flame the pa
triotism of the men who had engaged
in the sanguinary battle with Indians
on the 10th Of October, IVA, at the
mouth Of the Kenhawa.
With these daring spirits and nj
own followers from Georgia, Colone
Clarke returned to the scene OF hi
former conflicts with the British. TIT
enemys posts were annoyed, their sen
tinels shot down and their officers pick
ed of. Hence although the British
through Georgia and South Carolin'
conquered territory, the officers com
manding the posts of Augusta ant