Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02

, ginia with tho desperation Of Il man
that almost felt a halter tightening
| around his throat, and as Lafayette
| positively refused to deal with him as
u British officer, and returned mis- dis
patches. Arnold WAS soon transferred
TO Clinton in Now York. but ne left
Tarleton TO continue his raids through
| virginia. which were estimated to have
cost Virginia nearly f3.O00.0oO. The
greatest damage this raider did was to
| carry OF $4,000 negroes. which Grip
plod labor. necessary to an army's food
supply Tarleton burnt. whenever pos
sible, the homes OF Revolutionary Of
| neers. and 1t was due TO this raid. that
GaSconE House. the finest manor In
| northumberland, was dcstroyed-an es
tate spoken OF by early writer's LAS
the Queen OF the Northern Neck" An
account OF this devastation is pre-
served In Colonel Gascoigne's CORE
/ spondence with Governor jefferson. In
| the Virginia Historical Society colo.
mel GascoiSne was the first cousin and
brether-in-la Of Richard Henry Leo,
the patriot who moved the Continental
congress, That the colonies ought and
should be free" and who worked I'M
tirinSly to get the members to sign
the declaration of Independence
| nence the en!nity of the British di-
rccted to his family.
~ Monticello the footprints are Still
visible on the highly polished hall
where the raider Tarleton rode in on
horseoack, though, thanks to a timely
warning, Governor Jefferson had sent
ms FAMILY for safety to the home of
Coionci Edward Carter six miles to
.he south and it was only by ten min
utes mat Jefferson himself got away
from Monticello before the arrival OF
the British. Their delay was due 10
the TACT OF their stopping for break
iast at John Walkers but as the nesI
TOOK 80 long to be put on the table
larieton himself went to tho Kitchen
90 see what was the matter, where he
lpuha me negro cook almost frantic, as
she had already prepared three break
iastS' which the hungry men who were
win Tarlcton had snatched and eaten
petor" the darkie could dish it up in
proper manner to serve on the table.
LAFAYETTE, meanwhile. was dispatch
ing lranhc messages to Cape Henry,
urging that De Grasses fleet come nm
the Chesapeake, clear the James and
blockade the York. o
petersburg and Richmond. then /,
city OF no special Importance. had ho,h
oeen raided by Arnold and CornwaIlis
Out thanks to Lafayette, freed FROM
.he British' Lafayette shelled Peters
wheh the English were there:
ana me cannon balls fired upon mar
occasion. were long preserved bv ,bat
cnE' moves History of Virginia gives
an interesting account of much TINT
occurred at this time, which ia doublv
emtcrtaining since the British General
rh'iiips. o'tiara and Arnold. and later
cornwaiiis himself, all were dom
itiieu az Hollingbroke," the home Of
the Boiling family--to which President
WILSON'S wife belongs. These Rritish
officers treated Mrs. Boiling with iii
courtesN-caliins her. Lady Boiling"
Old Fredericksburg. Prince William
ana FAIRFAX Counties. had also keen
~ fclt the dcprcdations Of the British
IN their efforts to burn out the tr,i-
,ors George Washington and George
Mason
what was the condition Of the army
81. inns period. must he decided nv
"ashington's letter to Reed, OF Penn.
ssirania, when he writes: we are
on the point of starving" That the
hritiSh fully realized this. is proven
ny Horace Walpole's statement to
Mann We look on America as ar
our feet"
continued Next Sunday)