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68 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
the dates and places, and to take into consideration the distances and the
state of the roads sixty years ago, and shall be compelled to acknowledge that
he could not have been at rest for a single day.
In his letter of the 23d, from Upper Marlborough, he writes: " The governor has issued orders for calling out three thousand of the drafts under the
requisition of the 4th of July; and, at my suggestion, has appointed Bladensburg as the place of rendezvous." From Piscataway, he writes on the 27th,
that " the governor is exerting himself to collect a force at Annapolis;" and
in another letter of the same date and place, he says : " the governor has been
in vain endeavoring to assemble the neighboring militia at Annapolis; he had
called on Frederick County, and some militia were coming in from thence
when I was last at Annapolis. All his force is, however, called out by the
authority of the State, and is not under my command; but they do, and will,
co-operate toward the general defence."l
He had already informed the Secretary of War that he had appointed
Bladensburg as the place of rendezvous, and notified him that it would be
necessary to collect arms and military stores at that point, for the use of the
men, remarking: " I have no knowledge where these articles are in store
nearest the point, nor under whose charge they are. I must pray you to give
the necessary orders for having the requisite deposits made at that place."
In the meantime, Cockburn's depredations and outrages on the shores of
the Potomac and Patuxent were vigorously kept up. A resident on the latter
river gives, in the Federal Republican, the following account of events which
took place in his neighborhood from the 13th to the 23d of July:
" On last Wednesday week a detachment from the enemy's shipping in the Patuxent,
in pursuit of stock, landed at Mr. Benedict Heard's in St. Mary's. Lieutenant Colonel
Ashton immediately detached in pursuit of them Capt. Blackstones rifle corps and Capt.
Brown's company of infantry. The enemy discovered them and retreated with great
precipitation to their barges. On the next day they burnt every house on the land, all of
which had been recently repaired ; his loss is estimated at upwards of four thousand dollars. On Saturday, the Severn, a new ship built last year of fir, carrying 56 guns,
commanded by Capt. Nourse, the Bruin, a troop ship, with 350 mariners, carrying 16
guns, a bomb-ship carrying 10 guns with four small captured sloops, ascended the Patuxent as high as Sheudan's Point, about eight miles below Benedict. On Sunday they
ascended as high as God's Grace, the property of the late George Mackall, when they
debarked nearly 500 men, and demanded about 20 hogsheads of tobacco belonging to Mr.
Billingsly the late tenant, and which they carried off, except three hogsheads, which they
gave to an overseer or tenant of Doctor Bells. From thence they marched about 350
marines to Huntington, nearly seven miles, where they burnt the warehouse. Upon their
return, some of their men were so much exhausted as to render it necessary for them to
be moved in ox-carts.
" On Tuesday they landed a very considerable force (not sixteen only as stated in the
National Intelligencer,) and marched to Calvert Court House, which, with the jail, they
destroyed. On Monday the shipping (except the detachment in the Patuxent), disappeared
from the mouth of the Patuxent and a heavy force appeared off Britton's Bay on Monday
night. On Tuesday morning they landed near Newtown a heavy force which marched
1 American State Papers, Military Affairs, p. 546.
| Title | History of Maryland - 3 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000093 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 68 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. the dates and places, and to take into consideration the distances and the state of the roads sixty years ago, and shall be compelled to acknowledge that he could not have been at rest for a single day. In his letter of the 23d, from Upper Marlborough, he writes: " The governor has issued orders for calling out three thousand of the drafts under the requisition of the 4th of July; and, at my suggestion, has appointed Bladensburg as the place of rendezvous." From Piscataway, he writes on the 27th, that " the governor is exerting himself to collect a force at Annapolis;" and in another letter of the same date and place, he says : " the governor has been in vain endeavoring to assemble the neighboring militia at Annapolis; he had called on Frederick County, and some militia were coming in from thence when I was last at Annapolis. All his force is, however, called out by the authority of the State, and is not under my command; but they do, and will, co-operate toward the general defence."l He had already informed the Secretary of War that he had appointed Bladensburg as the place of rendezvous, and notified him that it would be necessary to collect arms and military stores at that point, for the use of the men, remarking: " I have no knowledge where these articles are in store nearest the point, nor under whose charge they are. I must pray you to give the necessary orders for having the requisite deposits made at that place." In the meantime, Cockburn's depredations and outrages on the shores of the Potomac and Patuxent were vigorously kept up. A resident on the latter river gives, in the Federal Republican, the following account of events which took place in his neighborhood from the 13th to the 23d of July: " On last Wednesday week a detachment from the enemy's shipping in the Patuxent, in pursuit of stock, landed at Mr. Benedict Heard's in St. Mary's. Lieutenant Colonel Ashton immediately detached in pursuit of them Capt. Blackstones rifle corps and Capt. Brown's company of infantry. The enemy discovered them and retreated with great precipitation to their barges. On the next day they burnt every house on the land, all of which had been recently repaired ; his loss is estimated at upwards of four thousand dollars. On Saturday, the Severn, a new ship built last year of fir, carrying 56 guns, commanded by Capt. Nourse, the Bruin, a troop ship, with 350 mariners, carrying 16 guns, a bomb-ship carrying 10 guns with four small captured sloops, ascended the Patuxent as high as Sheudan's Point, about eight miles below Benedict. On Sunday they ascended as high as God's Grace, the property of the late George Mackall, when they debarked nearly 500 men, and demanded about 20 hogsheads of tobacco belonging to Mr. Billingsly the late tenant, and which they carried off, except three hogsheads, which they gave to an overseer or tenant of Doctor Bells. From thence they marched about 350 marines to Huntington, nearly seven miles, where they burnt the warehouse. Upon their return, some of their men were so much exhausted as to render it necessary for them to be moved in ox-carts. " On Tuesday they landed a very considerable force (not sixteen only as stated in the National Intelligencer,) and marched to Calvert Court House, which, with the jail, they destroyed. On Monday the shipping (except the detachment in the Patuxent), disappeared from the mouth of the Patuxent and a heavy force appeared off Britton's Bay on Monday night. On Tuesday morning they landed near Newtown a heavy force which marched 1 American State Papers, Military Affairs, p. 546. |
