sunk it into deeper distress. An attack upon the British at Stono ferry,
was now planned by Gen. Lincoln. Gen. Moultrie, was to throw over
on James Island, all the troops which could be spared from the town,
and make a feint on that side, or attack, if a favourable opportunity offered;
while the principal effort was to be made by Lincoln, at Stono.
He made the attack before Moultrie could cooperate, (June 20) and the enemy
remaining in their lines, and being reinforced, obliged him to retreat.
In this affair a few men were killed, and Col. Roberts, of the artillery,
mortally wounded. His loss was greatly and justly lamented.
William Richardson Davie, lately deceased, and afterwards so much celebrated
as Gen. Davie, was among the wounded. Prevost, soon after this,
retreated along the chain of islands on the coast, until he reached
Port Royal and Savannah. During the time Prevost lay before
the lines of Charleston, Maj. Benjamin Huger, an active officer,
a wise statesman, and a virtuous citizen, was unfortunately killed.
What rendered his fate the more melancholy, was, that the act was done
by the mistake of his own countrymen. It was at this time also,
that Gen. Count Pulaski, a Polander, began to distinguish himself
as a partisan. His address in single combat, was greatly celebrated.
Col. Kowatch, under his command, was killed before the lines,
and shamefully mutilated by the British. Of the campaign of 1779,
it was not the intention of the author to give a minute detail;
but only to sketch out those feelings, and that line of conduct,
in the cabinet and field, which, followed up in the succeeding year,
brought ruin and disgrace upon the country.

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* Lincoln's letter, 20th April.
** 1st vol. Moultrie's memoirs, from p. 425 to 435.
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