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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
uga. To restrain their ravages, which had ex- Chap. VIII.} 1779. tended from Georgia to Pennsylvania, the governments of North Carolina and Virginia appointed Evan Shelby to command about a thousand men, called into service chiefly from the settlers beyond the mountains. To these were added a regiment of twelve-months men, that had been enlisted for the re-enforcement of Clark in Illinois. Their supplies and means of transportation were due to the unwearied and unselfish exertions of Isaac Shelby. In the middle of April, April. embarking in pirogues and canoes at the mouth of Big Creek, they descended the river so rapidly as to surprise the savages, who fled to the hills and forests. They were pursued, and forty of their warriors fell. Their towns were burned; their fields laid waste; and their cattle driven away. Thus the plans of the British for a combined attack, to be made by the northern and southern Indians upon the whole western frontier of the states from Georgia to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
pose formed themselves into regiments under Isaac Shelby and John Sevier. Shelby despatched a messeShelby despatched a messenger to William Campbell on the forks of Holston; and the field-officers of southwestern Virginia unom the west of the Alleghanies under Campbell, Shelby, and Sevier, and the North Carolina fugitives the right Chap. XVI.} 1780. Oct. centre, and Shelby's regiment on the left centre; so that Sevier's right nearly adjoined Shelby's left. The right and left wings were to pass the position of FergusThe two centre columns, headed by Campbell and Shelby, climbing the mountain, began the attack. SheShelby, a man of the hardiest make, stiff as iron, among the dauntless singled out for dauntlessness, wder and some of his active officers, Colonel Isaac Shelby to Colonel Arthur Campbell, 12 Oct., 17 kept up a furious and bloody battle Colonel Isaac Shelby, in the National Intelligencer of 6 May, 20 Oct., 1780; about fifteen minutes, Colonel Isaac Shelby to Colonel Arthur Campbell, 12 Oct., 17
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
o 30. prepare to form at Guilford court-house a junction with those under Morgan, writing to Huger: I am not without hopes of ruining Lord Cornwallis if he persists in his mad scheme of pushing through the Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Jan. 30. country. Here is a fine field and great glory ahead. Johnson's Greene, i. 104. On the same day the famous Colonel William Campbell was asked to bring without loss of time a thousand good volunteers from over the mountains. A like letter was addressed to Shelby, though without effect. To the officers commanding in the counties of Wilkes and Surry, Greene said: If you repair to arms, Lord Cornwallis must be inevitably ruined. He called upon Sumpter, as soon as his recovery should permit, to take the field at the head of the South Carolina militia; he gave orders to General Pickens to raise as many troops as he could in the district of Augusta and Ninety-Six, and hang on the rear of the enemy; and he sought out powerful horses and skilful riders to