Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-23

While the Georgians were more uni
versally engaged in the Revolution than
any other in the thirteen states, they had
but a small representation in the conti-
mental army. With hostile Cherokees on
the north and northwest, with hostile
Creeks on the south and southwest, with
tories from Florida and renegades from
South Carolina, and loyalists and tories in
other parts of the state, with the British
In charge of the only seaport, with trained
British troops in the garrison, it may well
be imagined that the poor wings had a
distressing time, and that they were
forced to depend on themselves for there
were none to aid them. That Georgia did
any distinguished service for the newly
formed Confederacy out Of her hands,
one who is honest can say; that the newly
formed government did much for Geor-
gia, no one who is fair will claim. over
run from the st. Mary's TO the Allie
ghanies, Savannah, Augusta, Ebenezer,
Simsburg, held by the British, with her
frontiersmen driven into exile into South
| Carolina, IL was wonder that she did
not plead for quarter. But she did not
Her militia worked their little farms and
returned at the command of their officers,
to the camp. Driven into exile in South
Carolina, they formed regiments of refu-
gees, and with the Few brothers, with the
ing young Jackson, the solid Twiggs, the
daring Clarke, and they were In the days
of victory at Blackstock, Cowpens, Mus
grove Mills and Augusta. William Can
der was chosen to command the refugee
regiment, and his young son Henry was
major. His ancestors had ridden with
Cromwell and his Ironsides, and as a re-
ward for service had the grant of land in
Ireland. After a hundred years in Ire
loF1 - "a e..
lea, and Daniel Gambler found a home
in Bedford county, Va, near Lynchburg.
Here, William Gambler, son of Daniel,
grew up and here he married Miss An
thony, daughter Of John Anthony. He
was a little better educated than most Of
the men Of his time. Anxious to increase
a small property, he came to Georgia,
became deputy surveyor in the county
of Richmond and built a mill near
and Twiggs and Few, and with them he
stood for the whig cause.
When all seemed lost he crossed the
river and Joined the other Georgia refu-
gees, and was elected colonel. and hIs
son, Henry, was made major When the
tories and British desolated Wilkes he
with Elijah Clarke, led the destitute wo-
the Watonga, in then North Carolina
men and children to the head waters OF
Having put them where they could be
fed, he hurried to his regiment IN time
to lead them at Cowpens. After the figh'
was over he returned to his home to Co
lumbia, then Richmond.
He was elected to the legislature and
made judge Of probate, While compara-
lively a young man he died. His descend
ants are many, and perhaps no other
man III Georgia has ha6 more distin-
guished family line.
In 1881 Elijah Clarke, Joshua Dunn,
James Martin, Asa Emanuel, Caleb How
ell, George Walton and John Baker were
elected colonies by the legislature
OF Dunn and James Martin / know
nothing. Asa Emanuel was son OF John,
brother of the wife of General Twiggs,
and was a good soldier during the war,
and good citizen after II.
George Walton was the cousin of the
slgner, and was commissary general. He
was leading merchant in Savannah aft
err the war; and had large interests in
Wilkes and in Virginia. Failing In busi-
ness in Georgia he went to Virginia, where
he died in 1906 in Prince Edward county.
He left very large family. who have be-
come very prominent in Georgia affairs.
The Forts, Wrights, Reynolds, Meyers
were his descendants.
OF the other field officers, Lleuter4pt
Colonel Cunningham. william Walker,
Isaac jackson, Joshua Winn. Arch Beat,
James Mackaye, Francis Boykin, Stephen
johnson, Daniel Howell. John Mar in.
Charles Odingsbell, Lieutenant Colonel
Cooper and James Maxwell, I do not
know enough to write.
John Martin was afterward governor,
but save that he was from upper Georgia
and was a devoted patriot. I know moth