Georgia's landmarks, memorials and legends . onelJohn Dooly and Colonel William Candler bulh uf whuiu Leranie officersof note in the Revolution. Historic Old St. Pauls. Pa^e 117. Tomb of Gen. Leonidas Polk. Page 119. Prehistoric Memorials. Volume IT. Fort Grierson. This temporary stronghold, named inhonor of the British Lieutenant-Colonelwho commanded the garrison, stood near the site nowoccupied by the Riverside Mills.* Fort Cornwallis. Under this name Fort Augusta was en-larged and rechristened by the Britishofficer in command. Colonel Browne. At the outbreakof the Revolution the fort became
Georgia's landmarks, memorials and legends . onelJohn Dooly and Colonel William Candler bulh uf whuiu Leranie officersof note in the Revolution. Historic Old St. Pauls. Pa^e 117. Tomb of Gen. Leonidas Polk. Page 119. Prehistoric Memorials. Volume IT. Fort Grierson. This temporary stronghold, named inhonor of the British Lieutenant-Colonelwho commanded the garrison, stood near the site nowoccupied by the Riverside Mills.* Fort Cornwallis. Under this name Fort Augusta was en-larged and rechristened by the Britishofficer in command. Colonel Browne. At the outbreakof the Revolution the fort became the possession of theLiberty Boys, who hauled down the British flag, and occu-pied the garrison for four years. On the fall of Savan-nah, Colonel Campbell marched up the river to Augustaand seized it in the name of the king, and, after holdingit for two weeks, withdrew when he received the newsof the battle of Kettle Creek, The Americans then oc- ? Charles Edgeworth Jones In an article on Augusta, printed in theAugustan fur August, TABLET TO GENERAL LEONIDAS POLK, IN ST. PAULSCHURCH, AUGUSTA. Richmond 885 cupied it again for nearly fifteen months. On the fallof Charleston, it was abandoned by the patriots and oncemore occupied by the British troops nnder ColonelBrowne. But there came another change of occupants onSeptember 14, 1780, when the Americans made an assaultupon the White House, about a mile and a half westof Fort Augusta. Hastening to the relief of his brotheroflficer in distress. Colonel Browne left the fort vacant,and Colonel Clarke, in his absence, quietly took posses-sion. Four days later, Browne returned, and, the fatesbeing against the Americans, for the time at least, ColonelClarke yielded the post without resistance. Says : Three times, therefore, had the Americanscaptured the fort and three times had the British retakenit, yet not a gun had been fired, not a life had been seemed as if the old spell of peace was still upon thelittle
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