Camden, battle of 94 Camden, battle near, between Greene and Rawdon........................................................................ 225 229 Champe, John, sergeant major, his attempt to seize Arnold........ 270 to 284 Charleston, surrender of......... finally evacuated by the British......... 39 73 421 Coates, lieut. col. the pursuit of, by Sumpter, Marion, and Lee. Capture ..... Cowpens, the battle of....... 306 concentrates his forces at York and Gloucester.......................................... 312 Cherokees. Their irruption upon the district of Ninety-Six............... 382 De Grasse, his arrival in the Chesapeake, and battle with the British fleet. 349 96 Donope, count, repulsed and killed at Redbauk............. 23 E Page. ......... 260 Eggleston, major, his route and capture of a foraging party, and forty-five Eutaw Springs, the battle of.... G Galpin Fort, taken by lieut. col. Lee........ Gates, general, succeeds Lincoln in the command of the South....... 40 Greene, Nathaniel, succeeds Gates in command of the South.... his determination to leave Cornwallis, and carry the war into South H 235 239 Hampton, his dispersion and capture of some mounted refugees........ 265 .... 18 Hayne, colonel Isaac, narrative of the circumstances which led to his exe- Laurens, lieut. col. John, placed in command of the infantry of the light his death....................... Lee captures and releases the wounded of Stewart's army Major General Charles, arrest of......... Leslie, General, invades Virginia,. Lincoln, Major General, appointed commander in chief of the southern army 43 M Marion and Lee, detached to interrupt Stewart's retreat..... his corps surprised and routed, during his absence from it, while N Naval engagement between the French and English fleets, off the coast of Page. ...... 197 239 255 39 North, lord, character of..... P Parker, col. Richard, death of........... 76 18 198 Philadelphia occupied by the British........ Pickens, general Andrew, character of.......... Prevost, lieut. col. defeats general Ashe...... .... Savannah, beseiged by count D'Estaing and general Lincoln.............. Stewart, colonel, retreats from Eutaw............................................................. St. John's Island, unsuccessful attempt upon................................................................... 384 Tarleton, lieut. col. surprises general Sumpter....... defeat and cruelty of him and his dragoons.. his skirmish with Lee...... his expedition to Bedford... Virginia, Cornwallis's invasion of, narrated in Chap. 31 beginning at...... 284 invasion of by general Matthews.... assembly, the magnanimity of... W Washington, gen. George, attacks the British at Germantown. 53 122 21 his junction with the French army, and threatens New York. 344 353 406 .............. 184 Wayne captures major Alexander, and eighteen dragoons..... Wetzell's mills, affair at. ...................................................................................................................................................... 163 INDEX TO THE APPENDIX. The appendix contains, besides the official documents referred to Burgoyne, lieutenant general...... Page. Davie, William Richardson.................................................................................................................... 425 Marion, brigadier general Francis.... Pickens, brigadier general Andrew.. Thayer, Simeon 421 .............................. 436 .......................... 421 432 Washington, lieutenant colonel William................................................... Williams, brigadier general Otho Holland. and 427 434 448 ........ 440 A letter from the Marquis of Hastings, formerly Lord Rawdon, and then 459 MEMOIRS OF THE WAR IN THE SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER I. THE determination of the mind, to relinquish the soft scenes of tranquil life for the rough adventures of war, is generally attended with the conviction that the act is laudable; and with a wish, that its honourable exertions should be faithfully transmitted to posterity. These sentiments lead to the cultivation of virtue; and the effect of the one is magnified by the accomplishment of the other. In usefulness to society, the difference is inconsiderable between the conduct of him who performs great achievements, and of him who records them; for short must be the remembrance, circumscribed the influence, of patriotic exertions and heroic exploits, unless the patient historian retrieve them from oblivion, and hold them up conspicuously to future ages. "Sæpè audivi, Q. Maximum, P. Scipionem, præterea civitatis nostræ præclaros viros, solitos ita dicere, cùm majorum imagines intuerentur, vehementissimè sibi animum ad virtutem accendi. Scilicet non ceram illam, neque figuram tantam vim in sese habere; sed memoriâ rerum gestarum eam flammam egregiis viris in pectore crescere, neque priùs sedari, quàm virtus eorum famam atque gloriam adæquaverit."*-Sall. Bell. Jugur. Regretting, as we all do, that not one of the chief actors in our camp or cabinet, and indeed very few of our fellow citizens, have -attempted to unfold the rise, or to illustrate the progress and tecmination of our revolution, I have been led to this my undertaking with a hope of contributing, in some degree, to repair the effects of this much lamented indifference. With this view, I am about to write memoirs of the southern campaigns, being that part of the *"Often have I heard," "that Quintus Maximus, Publius Scipio, and other renowned men of our commonwealth, used to say that, whenever they beheld the images of their ancestors, they felt their minds vehemently excited to virtue. It could not be the wax or the marble that possessed this power: but the recollection of their great actions kindled a generous flame in their breasts, (not to be quelled) till they also by virtue had acquired equal fame and glory." |