Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-13
CELEBRATE:
| DECISIVE FIGHT
/ OF REVOLUTION
Forty-frst Anniversary OF
| Battle of Guilford Court
I House March Is

Y Guilford Court House, n. c.. March
l1.-Most Americans think the revo-
aution began at Lexington and ended
pt. Yorktown.
Il Close students of history, however.
Know thai the North Carolians had
begun taking up arms in l77l soon
after the Mecklenberg Declaration OF
independence. The battle Of Gull
ford Court House. which Immediately
preceded the retreat Of CORVALLIS to
the surrender at Yorktown. has been
acclaimed by many as the battle that
MoE the Evolutionary war. Described
in the British parliament a victory
1t drew from John Fog the rejoinder'
that another such victory would
mean the destruction of British forces
in America"
The one hundred and forty-frst an
niversary OF the battle of Guilford
Court House will be celebrated here or
March Is with the placing of the cele-
brated Battle Ground Oak in the Hall
of Fame for Trees established by the
American Forestry association. II
was the tree to which Gen. Nathaniel
Greene tied his horse during that cele-
erated engagement. and tho majestic
oak, known TO be moro than zoe years
old now has .. spread 9. moro than a
hundred feet and is n feet around at
the bass
-Four miles away is the New Gar
den cak In a cemetery where stood an
cid Quaker mee,!ng house where the
WOUNDED from the hattie We're cared
for. In the shade o. the New Garden
Oak lies our.ed the grandfather Of
Uucle Joe Cannon. This celebrated
tae is also to TAX its place in the
hall Of fame on the anne day.
Nominations for The Battle Ground
t1nk in fh0 hail ~ fa,,,a MORO ~, do nv
MH. Dorian H. Blair Of the Daughters
of the American Revolution of
Greensboro. n, c.; Prof. Mark c. Mills
OF Guilford College ind Paul G.. Lind
ley OF Pomona, n. c.; Professor Mills
also nominated tho New Garden Oak.
Greene Attached.
At tho Battle OF Guilford Court
House CORVALLIS had three horses
shot from under him. Cen. Greene.
in command of the American for ces
which consisted OF Huger's Brigade OF
Virginia, Williams Maryland and
Delaware brigade, Continental Regu-
lara, North Carolina militia. Virginia
militia, Light Horse" Harry Ices
Legion. Col. William Washington's
Dragons, Lees Dragons and caval-
rs.
CORVALLIS retreated into Virginia
ana at + oTkCOWn inc kOl-
lowing October. The Lafayette Elm
planted in front OF the Yorktown
headquarters when Lafayette visited
this country in 1874 is also In the Hall
Of Fame. The Guilford battlefield is
now owned by the nation after IN as
ISOLATION headed by Judge David
Schenck in 1887 started plans for pre-
serving the site.
Another nomination given a place
of honor is the Kentucky Coffee tree
in front OF the Yer P1anck mansion Al
Fishki,l-on-Hudson nominated by Cora
June Sheppard of shiloh, n. ]. The
tree was planted in 1904 on propert.
assured by the Yer Planck family
during the reign of James II, King OF
England. in 1858. The property has
remained with this family ever since
Baron Steuben occupied the mansion
during the Revolution and under this
tree the first meeting of the Society
Of the Cincinnati was held. The ,res
is a magnificent specimen with two
trunks IS feet high.
a tree adopted" by the Boy Scout.
at Elizabethtown. Pa, is also given
place in the Hall of Fame. The trees
is a prone juniper, so years old anG
As feet in diameter. The limbs lie or
the ground and do not take root The