Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-28

Etaks Two, no supper, three" You had
only to look Eat q mans belt to te,l'
how hungry he was. They often went
into battle with only a few rounds OF
ammunition and trusted to replenish
from the. cartridge. pouches. OF fallen
friends or foes. It was, not uncom-
mon for them to movo against their
foes with their. second line uparmed',
These unarmed men would watch with
hawk like anxiety to see a man fall.
Then they would dart forward, seize
his gun and join in the Fray .i.
..%at Fought Like 5Furies. d
|, Third, their method of fighting.
These bands. When small, watched for
opportunity I'd pouncei on conveys of
| food |, ammunition, or prisoners. They
stalked outposts or detachments. or
hing. on the flank or rear of ON enemy
too. strong for them to- attack. and
disturbed his rest, cut to pieces his
scouting parties, broke up his COM
rnunications, and damaged his morale.
When parity Of numbers permitted
they never hesitated to attack camps,
posts; or fight in the field. When they
were defeated they retired as rapidly,
Dayie did, or scattered to the woods
as was Sumter's tactics, or hid In the
swamps as Marion often found con-
venient. AS they were reinforced or
the enemy retired, they rallied for
another blow. They : hesitated no
/ more about running when it was nec-
essary than they did about attacking
when that was in order. Their
lfavorlte method OF attack was TO ap-
lproach their foe secretly ind then
drive at him furiously. Fisher says:
"The. suddenness Of their, appearance.
| the fury OF their attack and secrecy
Of their flight were appalling to- Eu-
}ropean soldiers."' 4.
NSuch were the men who worsted
their enemies In many q frayyan kept
Fthe fires ofipatriotism ablaze. TO
name them all would be. page filling.
! Sumter, Marion and Pickens were the
ranking officers. Around them were
such determined commanders as
James, Bratton, Wfnn, Lacey. Hill,
NeeI, Mcclure, Hammond, McCottrY.
Morzon, Witherspoon, the two Postells,
Thomas, the father and SON, the two
Horrys, Thomas and Samuel Taylor,
the several Hamptens and others. Co
+, operating with them from North
Carolina were Davie, Davidson, Shell
by Cleveland, Rutherford, the Graham
| brothers, the two McDoweil's and other
daring souls. In a table worked out
by McCrady, he shows that from July
IL ito December IL, 1880, these parti-
sans fought, .26 battles, inflicted a loss
on the British Of 1900 killed and
wounded. and took 1886, prisoners.
while they. lost but 4s7S killed and
wounded and 800 prisoners4a ratio
OF. three to one in favor of the bold
partisans. They upset all Of Corn
wallis,s plans for O triumphant south
TO north march. and iwere thus large
contributors to hiss lordship's surren-
DIR at Yorktown. 81 III
!" Col. Niilliatn tilli.
Among these partisan leaders was
the man whose nenoryp your ladies
honor. today. Colonel Sl1fsinm Hill
was of English stock, hut shis family
had lived, It seems, for several gene
rations in Protestant Ireland. A NUM-
ber Of the family came to America at
the same time. They first settled in
York County. Pa. but later oil nigrat-
ed south. They founded new homes In
| Virginia, North and South Carolina,
and Georgia. This section in which
Colonel Hill settled was then called
the New Acquisition. This new ac-
quisition was strip of land fourteen
miles wide and sixty five. long that
was awarded to South Carolina from
North Carolina by boundary adju-
dicating Commission in 1772.
Building of the Iron Works.
Colonel Hill was probably attract
ed to this section by the belief then
prevalent that all the land around
A
ore. TIe was q man Of property and
bought a large tract Of land on Alli-
sons Creek near the Catawba river.
There he built q home, q grain mill
and a saw mill, and in partnership
with Col, Isaac Hayne set up an Iron
Works, although 1t was against the
English law at that time for the
colonists to manufacture. In order to
get skilled hands for his works. he
was forced to send all the way to the
| Troublesome Iron Works in Virginia.
The Hill Works, which employed a
considerable number Of men, produced
both wrought iron and cast iron pro-
ducts. The furnace was operated on
the Catalan plan. The ore was re-
duced by directly fusing 1t with char
coal. The pig iron produced was
either, wrought by hand into such ar
ticles as were desired or reduced to
cast iron for mouldlngs and castings.
These works made farm tools, ma
chimes, shop supplies and all sorts OF
iron household utensils, and had an
ovtono;,o tro da, With tho e,,rrO,indiOg