The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . not more flush than usual at this season and that it wasfordable from a week before until two days after this; thatGeneral Davidsons cavalry frequently crossed it during thesedays. Some historians have Cornwallis pursuing Morganand arriving at Sherrills Ford a very short time (a fewhours) after Morgan had crossed, and finding the river hadsuddenly risen and enabled him to escape. The Yadkin onaccount of the rain on the 1st rose on the 2d and 3d of Febru-ary so that, although Morgans forces and some other troopshad crossed th
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . not more flush than usual at this season and that it wasfordable from a week before until two days after this; thatGeneral Davidsons cavalry frequently crossed it during thesedays. Some historians have Cornwallis pursuing Morganand arriving at Sherrills Ford a very short time (a fewhours) after Morgan had crossed, and finding the river hadsuddenly risen and enabled him to escape. The Yadkin onaccount of the rain on the 1st rose on the 2d and 3d of Febru-ary so that, although Morgans forces and some other troopshad crossed that day, General OHara found some militia un-able to cross, with whom there was an engagement that after-noon. It is confusion of these two points that causes erroras to the condition of the Catawba. Beatties Ford, while the best Ford on the river, has alwayshad a deep current near each bank, which a very slight risecauses to be too deep for wagons to cross without getting theircontents wet. The road at this time went above the island THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. 237. 238 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. and was probably deeper than now at the east bank (see map).Cornwallis train had a large quantity of flour which had justbeen procured at Eamsaurs Mill; it was probably in order topreserve this that he delayed his crossing, or perhaps findingthe public fords guarded, delayed to find passage by a privateone. Cornwallis informed Tarleton before the campaignopened that he would cross at some public ford above Tuck-asegee. Tooles was the only one between Tuckasegee andBeatties, and when Cornwallis learned that Morgan hadescaped, he naturally turned to Beatties for the passage of hisartillery and provision train. It was the most suitable forthis purpose. General Davidson, u;^on the approach of Corn-wallis, made disposition of his forces to oppose his placed at Tuckasegee two hundred militia under Williams, of Surrey County; at Tooles seventy menunder Captain Potts, of
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