. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... LORD CORNWALLIS. hundred prisoners. As soon as CornwalHsheard of this, he sent Tarleton in pursuit ofthe Game Cock, as he styled pushed forward with such vigorthat half of his men and horses were brokendown, He overtook Sumter at Fishing. 454 THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 455 Creek, on the west bank of the Catawba, androuted him with the loss of the greater par*: ofhis partisan corps, and rescued the prisoners. Early in December afterwards, an engage
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... LORD CORNWALLIS. hundred prisoners. As soon as CornwalHsheard of this, he sent Tarleton in pursuit ofthe Game Cock, as he styled pushed forward with such vigorthat half of his men and horses were brokendown, He overtook Sumter at Fishing. 454 THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 455 Creek, on the west bank of the Catawba, androuted him with the loss of the greater par*: ofhis partisan corps, and rescued the prisoners. Early in December afterwards, an engage-ment took place between the Whigs andTories on Long Cane, near Ninety-Six,which resulted disastrously to the patriotcause, and which was of sufficient importanceto be noticed. Colonel Benjamin Few, ofGeorgia, was the senior officer in com-mand of the Whigs, composed ofGeorgia and South Carolina Cruger, the British officer in:ommand at Ninety-Six, with a greatlysuperior force, determined to attackFew in his camp by surprise. Hisforces were within three miles of Fewscamp before the latter was aware oftheir approach. Colonel Clarke, Lieu-tenant Colonel McCall,and Major JohnLindsay, with one hundred men, wereordered out to meet and skirmish withthe enemy until the main body ofFews forces could be brought to theirassistance. In this skirmish, Clarke Ireceived a wound in
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