The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-06

/ badly. The sharpshooters at the east
| crn end OF the island had waited
patiently until the fiatboats carrying
| the British regulars got we'll within
range and then opened fire. Twas use:
Hess TO attempt a landing under such
| a fusillade. Several times the British
| attempted It. Each time they We're
driven back. Finding 1t was but q
1 useless slaughter. Clinton gave 1t up.
Sad indeed was the procession that
/ left Charleston Harbor the day after
! the battle,g OF the5fleet scarcely yes
/, sci but was injured OF the army
| which was to overrun the Southern
colonies. 1t had been defeated. II not
/ disgraced, by volunteers. And OF Moul-
| tries men only ten were killed and
!twenty-two wounded. More than
thousand shot were picked up about
!! the fort. Hundreds of shells that came
/ into the fort fell into a moat in the
4 middle OF the works. the water of
/ which extingulshed the fuses before
4 the fire reached the powder. The pal
|metto logs had proved admirable for
! defense The cannon balls sank into
/ their soft, spongy pulp and remained
l there. They sent out no splinters
j either.
/ Like IantOur.
AS the vanqushed fleet sailed away
and all Charleston rejoced, poor Jasper
! and some others among the defenders
found it more difficult to face a grate-
i ful people than hostile foe. To Jas
| per, the Governor Of the state. John
4 Rutledge, afterward Chief Justice OF
1.-THE United States. presented his hand-
some sword and thanked him IN the
name Of his country. ~ lieutenant's
| commission, too. was offered to him.
Il nd On, MI G
1 take. II am but a sergeant" he de-
clared. II am not fit to keep officers
company"
Sergeant he was and sergeant he
i would remain. No argument could al
tier his determinations. To keep him
busy and give ample opportunity TO
X him to exercise his keen wits u rowing
4 commission was given to him. AS there
was more activity in CieorE than about
4 Charleston. he went there, and,.manE
{. are the exploits with which no is
4 credited by tradition. AS humane as
4 he was brave. it is said he never IN
4 iured an enemy unnecessarily. but Q
a story OF distress or Of wrong would
Il stir him to great emotion. One OF the
hest stories about his doings while
4 an independent rover is connected with
4 tale of distress. The British had q
4 camp at Ebenezer, Ga, and had taken
d a prisoner named Jones there prepara-
ltory to sending him to Savannah for
"A trial. Jones had been n loyalist and
#lthen had turned Continental. capital
q crime in the eyes of the British The
night OF the capture Jones's wife sent
{ word to Jasper, begging him to save
. |her husbands life. When the message
!. reached Jasper he had only one COM
panlon, Sergeant Newton. He knew
!, Jones and such other prisoners as
Il were sent to Savannah would be
under heavy guard, but he and Newton
& started at once Savannah was in pos
session OF the British. a few miles
out from the city on the road from
Ebenezer there was n spring at which
Jasper know the guard and the PRISON.
ers would halt. For this point Jasper
land Newton made all speed. Once
There they hid in the bushes.
J AS they expected, this guard and the
|prsoners stopped to Stake their thirst
and rest. Eight men made UP tho
. guard. Two Of the eight remained
} With the prisoners. while the other
SIX stacked their muskets against
tree ana Tprocrrvet ed 70 drinks Walllns
for what they considered the oppor-
, tune moment, Jasper and Newton crept
: ait from The thicket, seized two OF
/; flo muskets and shot the two guards
! who had been LETT With tho prisoners,
,rhen they overawed the other siS who
= We're at tho spring.
I The prisoners. who were In irons,
soon were freed by Jasper; the guns
b OF tho former guards were put into
LINER hands, aud from the sprnE nenr
savannah the men who had been the
Iprisouers marched thelrformer5 guards
lto the American camp at g,Iurysyllle.
ii reads like romance, hntsit Is not
g. The spping Us kn own to-day as &Jasper's