Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina; Embracing for the Most Part the Primitive and Colonial History of the Territory Comprising (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... encountered a body of Whigs, who had been marching to the succor of General Lincoln, but who were now retreating by forced marches. He fell upon them and the carnage was dreadful. He butchered many who offered to surrender. This horrible massacre gave a bloody turn to the war. The Americans remembered this engagement with horror, and from that time it became a proverbial mode of expressing the cruelties of a barbarous enemy to call them Tarleton's Quarter. The third expedition was that of Colonel Ferguson to the District of Ninety-Six, already referred to. All of these expeditions were, for a time, successful, and many of the inhabitants flocked from all parts to meet the Royal troops, expressing a desire to return to their ancient allegiance and offering to enlist to defend the Royal standard. A proclamation had been issued soon after the surrender of Lincoln at Charlestown, by General Clinton, offering a full and absolute pardon to those who would immediately return to their duty, promising that no offenses or transgressions heretofore committed in consequence of political troubles, should be investigated. Many of those who had heretofore been faithful and active leaders in the patriot cause, now took Royal protection and availed themselves of the proclamation, among whom we would mention the names of Gen. Andrew Williamson, Gen. Isaac Huger, Colonels Andrew Pickens, John Thomas and Isaac Hayne. Others, however, preferred to brave the popular tide and remain in open partisan warfare, among whom were Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, the Hamptons, Williams and others. Ferguson was dispatched to the up-country on the 18th day of May, 1780. His command consisted of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred men of the provincial corps. His...