Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-26
INSTALLMENT XIV.
The CAPTURE of Fort BaIfour.

After the fall of Fort CRANKY, the
American officers promptly continued
the plan Of operation which had been
previously adopted. Marion was
already before Georgetown, having
gone to that point Immediately on the
surrender of Fort Motto. Lord Raw
don had returned to Eutaw, and was
making arrangements to proceed to
Monks Corner and establish at that
point a recruiting camp. Generals
Marion and Sumter were ordered to
remain in the lower section Of the
state to watch the movements of
Lord Rawdon Lieutenant Colonel
Lee was directed to advance at once
against Augusta; whilst Gen. Greene
with the main body of the American
army was to advance against Ninety
Six. Such is brief outline Of the po-
sition and plans Of the Wings after
the capture Of Fort CRANKY.
In order that we may have a correct
notion of the operations Of the Wings,
in future, it will be necessary that we
direct our attention to several moves
which transpired previous to the cap
ture of Fort CRANKY. For some cause
not now we'll understood, the militia
from Georgia, South Carolina and
from the counties Of Rowan and Neck
lenburg, North Carolina, in the COM
mand Of Colonel Andrew Pickens. were
dissatisfied respecting the affair which
took place at Wetzell's mill in March
previous to the battle Of Guilford court
house. 1t so happened that Governor
Rutledge was at that time in General
Greene's camp. To avoid a difficulty
and also to crafty these militia corps,
they were detached under the command
of Colonel Pickens and sent back
into South Carolina with instructions
to operate in the Ninety-Six district.
When General Greene determined,
while in camp at Deep river to pursue
CORVALLIS no longer, but to lead the
American army under his command
into South Carolina for the purpose of
wrestling, If possible, the state out of
the grasp of the enemy, he detached
Majors Samuel Hammond and James
Jackson from the army and sent them
into the regions of South Carolina and
Georgia, bordering on the Savannah.
Colonel Pickens, rewarded by con-
gress for his bravery and skill at the
battle of Cowpens, with a brigadier
generals commission was instructed
to invest Ninety-Six, If he thought 1t
advisable. At all events he was to use
his utmost exertion to prevent rein
forcements from being sent from Nine
ty-Six to Camden. Hammond and
Jackson having disclosed Greene's
plans to Pickens, were to cross the
Savannah and encourage the Wings In
Georgia to collect their forces and rem
der what assistance was in their pow
er to General Greene. Clark, Mccall
and Williams listened attentively to
the plans of General Greene, and most
heartily co-operated with Hammond
and Jackson in proceeding to put the
proposed plans into execution. Nc
Call died a short time after Of small
pox, and Clarke on account Of the same
disease was for some time prevented
from taking the field.
Previous to this period active oper-
ations-on a small scale, it is admitted
had been in progress. About the
time that General Greene left Deep
river Colonel William Hardin, who
since the fall of Charleston, had been
operating in conjunction with General
Marion, set out with a detachment OF
seventy six men-the greater number
of whom were inhabitants of the coun-
| ties of Beaufort and Barnwell-for the
region of country lying between Sa-
vannah and Augusta. The main OBJ
ject which Colonel Hardin had in view
by this move, was to check the ravages
OF the Tories and encourage the Whig
inhabitants of this section Of the coun-
try. Colonel Baker and Major Cooper
with few Georgians, who had taken
refuge in the camp of Marion, formed
an efficient portion of Hardin's COM
mand.
Leaving the swamps of Black river
Hardin with his small but patriotic
band set out for the point Of their des-
tination. Before them the Tories fec
in dismay. Their march through the
country was hailed with joy by the
Wings By trustworthy friends they
were correctly informed Of the opera.
tiOns of the Tories and British.
The principal point to which theil
attention was first directed was POGO