Camp continued on
bank of Ashley river, eighteen or twenty miles above Charleston. Enemy confine
themselves to city. Their light troops and horse advanced five miles, at place
called Quarter House. Armies both seem disposed to be quiet; ours in no
condition for doing much. Some talk of peace, and of the enemy evacuating
Charleston. Detailed for command. Joined a captain of the Maryland line;
marched with two sergeants, two corporals, and thirty men, for Georgetown,
about sixty miles distant, coast-wise. Escorted a brigade of wagons loaded with
rum for the army. Country appears deserted; the few people we saw looked bad
enough, poor and dejected; they fled from us, and in some instances hid
themselves. Farms on this route have been neglected; exposed to the incursions
of the British. Negroes and stock either removed or taken. Fell in with an
alligator, twelve feet in length, in the middle of the road; supposed that his
pond had dried up, and that he was in search of another; soldier shot him.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, pp. 250-1
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