Richmond, September 15, 1780. Sir, I beg leave to trouble you with a private letter, on a little matter of my own, having no acquaintance at camp, with whom I can take that liberty. Among the wagons impressed, for the use of your militia, were two of mine. One of these, I know is safe,…
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Loyalist Comments on the Battle of Camden
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Instead of halting and collecting a force at Hillsborough, in North Carolina, General Gates’ flight was rapidly continued three days into Virginia, one hundred and ninety miles from the field of action; it was effected upon a celebrated horse,…
Battle of Camden
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 16.—Early this morning the advanced parties of the British under Cornwallis, and the Americans under General Gates, met in the woods near Camden. The result is not altogether known, but from every quarter we hear of the total…
Lord Cornwallis to Lt Col Nisbet Balfour
Lord Cornwallis’ Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Nisbet Balfour, Commander at Ninety Six: I have the happiness to inform you, that on Wednesday the 16th instant, I totally defeated General Gates’s army. One thousand were killed and wounded, about eight hundred taken prisoners. We are in possession of eight pieces of brass cannon, all they had…
Affairs in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 19.—The following extract of a letter from a clergyman at New York, will convey a pretty lively idea of the joy which the British in that quarter must have felt at the news of Gates’s defeat; it contains…