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Extract.- from Earl Cornwallis to Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton, dated Wynnesborough, Dec. 18th, 1780. IF you had not moved yesterday, Kinlock would have informed you that Leslie's fleet came over the bar on Thursday last, all well, and not a single missing ship; they will begin their march, I believe, this day. I expect Balfour here to-morrow or Wednesday. Lord Rawdon has received intelligence, which, however, he does not credit, that Morgan's corps and the cavalry had passed the Catawba. I have sent out every body I could engage to go; but the friends hereabout are so timid, and so stupid, that I can get no intelligence. I apprehend we must first dislodge Lacey, &c. from Turkey creek, and then march up the west side of Catawba to some of the fords about the Tuckaseege. I wish you would take pains to inform yourself as thoroughly as possible of the state of the roads, (a.) provisions, forage, mills, &c. I have good account of our recruits, in general, and hope to march from hence three thousand five hundred fighting men, leaving those I mentioned to you on the frontiers. I trust you will make every possible shift rather than go much farther back, as I should then be uneasy about M'Arthur; and as soon as you have been able to get information about the country, I should be glad to see you, to talk over our march. (From A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Province of North America?, by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, pp241-242.) Tarleton, Ch 4., [B], p. 241 12/18/1780 |
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