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Copy.- From Earl Cornwallis to Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton, dated M'Alister's, January 8th, 1781.

Dear Tarleton,
I HAVE just received yours, 7th January, three o'clock P. M. I shall remain here to-morrow, march to cross roads on Wednesday, halt Thursday, and reach Bullock's-creek house Saturday.

I have no news.

Yours very sincerely,
CORNWALLIS

Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton.


(From A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Province of North America?, by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, pp246-248.)

Tarleton, Ch 4., [H], p. 246a
1/8/1781

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