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THE LAST BLOODSHED IN THE REVOLUTION. 489
Creek Bridge, about eight miles from Dorchester, Greene placed his main
army under Colonel Williams, with instructions to continue the march southward, while he, with a detachment of the Maryland and Virginia infantry,
and a portion of Lee's and Washington's cavalry, made an effort to capture
the garrison of eight hundred and fifty men in charge of Dorchester. Intelligence of his movements having been communicated to the enemy, they
destroyed their stores, etc., and retreated in all haste to Charleston. On the
7th of December, Williams, with the main army, halted at Round 0, where
he was joined on the 9th by General Greene; and on the 4th of January, 1782,
St. Clair aud Wayne, with the Pennsylvania and Maryland troops, overtook
them, after a long and weary march. On the 11th of July, the enemy evacuated Savannah, the regulars going to Charleston, and the loyalists, under
Brown, taking refuge in Florida. Late in August, the enemy sent out a foraging fleet from Charleston, to collect provisions, and General Gist, with his
brigade, composed of the cavalry of Lee's legion, the 3d and 4th Virginia
regiments united, under Colonel Baylor; the infantry of the legion; the dismounted dragoons of the 3d regiment; the Delaware battalion, and one
hundred men detached from the Maryland Line, commanded by Major Beale,
was ordered immediately out to protect the Combahee District. On the 27th,
Colonel Laurens, who was hastening to join him, met the enemy, and in a
slight skirmish, was killed. General Gist, anticipating the danger to which
Laurens was exposed, marched to his relief, and compelled the enemy to
embark with slight loss. As soon as the enemy crossed the bar of Beaufort
harbor, General Gist moved back to reinforce the main army, and his brigade
was not again engaged during the war. Captain Wilmot, of Maryland, however, with a small force, still continued to guard John's Island, and watch
the passage by the Stono; and his love of adventure led him occasionally to
cross the river and harass the enemy on James Island. In one of these
expeditions, undertaken in conjunction with Kosciuszko, against a party of the
enemy's wood-cutters, on the 14th of November, 1782, he fell into an ambuscade, was himself shot dead, and Lieutenant Moore, his second in command,
and a servant, severely wounded and made prisoners. " This was. the last
bloodshed," says Johnson, "in the American War."1
General Greene, having now regained all South Carolina except Charleston, the Maryland Legislature, on the 15th of January, 1783, in consideration
of his services, adopted the following address, which was transmitted to him
by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate:
"The General Assembly of Maryland convened, think it their duty to give a public
testimony of their sense of the services you have rendered the United States. This State
in particular, feels obligations which can never be done away. You stopped the career
of a victorious army; you defeated their army in pitched battles; you captured their garrisons; you recovered countries they had overrun, persevering through all these scenes
amidst wants which enervate courage and destroy life, nor relaxing till Charles Town is
1 Life of Greene, ii., p. 345.
| Title | History of Maryland - 2 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000532 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE LAST BLOODSHED IN THE REVOLUTION. 489 Creek Bridge, about eight miles from Dorchester, Greene placed his main army under Colonel Williams, with instructions to continue the march southward, while he, with a detachment of the Maryland and Virginia infantry, and a portion of Lee's and Washington's cavalry, made an effort to capture the garrison of eight hundred and fifty men in charge of Dorchester. Intelligence of his movements having been communicated to the enemy, they destroyed their stores, etc., and retreated in all haste to Charleston. On the 7th of December, Williams, with the main army, halted at Round 0, where he was joined on the 9th by General Greene; and on the 4th of January, 1782, St. Clair aud Wayne, with the Pennsylvania and Maryland troops, overtook them, after a long and weary march. On the 11th of July, the enemy evacuated Savannah, the regulars going to Charleston, and the loyalists, under Brown, taking refuge in Florida. Late in August, the enemy sent out a foraging fleet from Charleston, to collect provisions, and General Gist, with his brigade, composed of the cavalry of Lee's legion, the 3d and 4th Virginia regiments united, under Colonel Baylor; the infantry of the legion; the dismounted dragoons of the 3d regiment; the Delaware battalion, and one hundred men detached from the Maryland Line, commanded by Major Beale, was ordered immediately out to protect the Combahee District. On the 27th, Colonel Laurens, who was hastening to join him, met the enemy, and in a slight skirmish, was killed. General Gist, anticipating the danger to which Laurens was exposed, marched to his relief, and compelled the enemy to embark with slight loss. As soon as the enemy crossed the bar of Beaufort harbor, General Gist moved back to reinforce the main army, and his brigade was not again engaged during the war. Captain Wilmot, of Maryland, however, with a small force, still continued to guard John's Island, and watch the passage by the Stono; and his love of adventure led him occasionally to cross the river and harass the enemy on James Island. In one of these expeditions, undertaken in conjunction with Kosciuszko, against a party of the enemy's wood-cutters, on the 14th of November, 1782, he fell into an ambuscade, was himself shot dead, and Lieutenant Moore, his second in command, and a servant, severely wounded and made prisoners. " This was. the last bloodshed," says Johnson, "in the American War."1 General Greene, having now regained all South Carolina except Charleston, the Maryland Legislature, on the 15th of January, 1783, in consideration of his services, adopted the following address, which was transmitted to him by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate: "The General Assembly of Maryland convened, think it their duty to give a public testimony of their sense of the services you have rendered the United States. This State in particular, feels obligations which can never be done away. You stopped the career of a victorious army; you defeated their army in pitched battles; you captured their garrisons; you recovered countries they had overrun, persevering through all these scenes amidst wants which enervate courage and destroy life, nor relaxing till Charles Town is 1 Life of Greene, ii., p. 345. |
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