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Patrick Ferguson, one of his most favorite officers, with one hundred and ten regulars and about the same number of Tories, under captain Depeyster, a loyalist, with an ample supply of arms and other military stores. Clarke, of Georgia, falling back from an unsuccessful attack upon Augusta.
I am happy in having done it, for I now feel perfectly relieved. Tuesday, 15th December. Yesterday was partly a day of business. The evening wholly and advantageously so. This day has been rather a feint. Yates engaged. I beg ten thousand pardons of Miss Depeyster; she is our warm friend and advocate. One Bogart, at Tappan, is the scoundrel. Wednesday, 16th December.
He has also established the character of A. Burr. Quackenbush is determined to be civil. Says his visits will be frequent. Yates is returned. More of him to-morrow. An old, weather-beaten lady, Miss Depeyster, has given the whole history of Burr, and much of Theo., but nothing unfavourable.
I am happy in having done it, for I now feel perfectly relieved. Tuesday, 15th December. Yesterday was partly a day of business. The evening wholly and advantageously so. This day has been rather a feint. Yates engaged. I beg ten thousand pardons of Miss Depeyster; she is our warm friend and advocate. One Bogart, at Tappan, is the scoundrel. Wednesday, 16th December.
He has also established the character of A. Burr. Quackenbush is determined to be civil. Says his visits will be frequent. Yates is returned. More of him to-morrow. An old, weather-beaten lady, Miss Depeyster, has given the whole history of Burr, and much of Theo., but nothing unfavourable.
Depeyster had taken post in the dwelling-house of Postelle's father. The latter had with him but twenty-eight militia, but he knew the grounds, and gaining possession of the kitchen, fired it, and was preparing to burn the house also, when Depeyster submitted.
Fairfield describes as "a bald-headed, dreamy-eyed man, in his day the star of the New York Bar, both for fervid eloquence and profound learning"; Philip Hone, he of the immortal "Diary"; Thomas P. Oakley, Samuel Jones, Beverly Robinson, W.B. Lewrence, Charles King, E.T. Throop, and J. Depeyster Ogden.
It was on this occasion, that, as we have already related, he was nearly drowned, and only saved by clinging to the impending branches of a tree. While Horry was skirmishing with Campbell, Major John Postelle, who was stationed to guard the lower part of the Pedee, succeeded in capturing Captain Depeyster, with twenty-nine grenadiers.
On the next day Major DePeyster, of Ferguson's forces, with a strong body of men, made an active but fruitless search.
At the time, many outsiders supposed that all the militia who were at the Cowpens fought in the battle; but this is not asserted by any one who knew the facts. General J. Watts DePeyster, in the Mag. of Am. Hist. for 1880, "The Affair at King's Mountain," gives the extreme tory view. He puts the number of the Americans at from thirteen hundred to nineteen hundred.
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