THE BATTLE.
It was as if we had no sooner learned that Tryon was near at hand than
he came almost upon us.
Just at sunset on the 13th day of May in the year of grace 1771, our
scouts came in with the report that the governor's force was encamped
hardly more than six miles away, and was sending out skirmishers to
ascertain our position.
Master Husband's opinion was, and now he had become the leader we
learned that he could be very obstinate once his mind was made up,
that our scouts should be drawn in lest, peradventure, some of them be
captured.
Thus it was we remained all in ignorance of what the enemy might be
doing until, at about eight o'clock in the evening, our sentinels
captured two of the king's men who were out reconnoitering, bringing
them into camp.
These were none other than Colonel John Ashe and Captain John Walker.
Now has come the moment when I must write of what we did to disgrace
the Regulation, because surely it was a disgrace for civilized men
claiming to be at war, to act as did the Regulators through the
advice, or, I might almost say, the commands of, Master Husband.
As we learned afterward, our new leader fancied he had cause for
enmity against the two gentlemen whom our sentinels had taken
prisoners, and within half an hour after they were brought into camp,
he ordered both tied to a tree and severely whipped.
It was an outrage which cannot be excused, however partial one may
feel toward that organization which first nourished the spirit of
liberty among the American people. Yet it was done, and to Master
Husband must be given the blame.
In the Carolinas Colonel Ashe and Captain Walker were looked upon as
worthy gentlemen even by those whose politics were of a different
complexion, and that we should flog them like slaves, nay, even in a
more brutal fashion than one would whip his own chattels, was dire
disgrace.
Had Master Husband delayed even ten minutes after making the proposal
for punishment, our people would have cried out against the outrage;
but it seemed almost as if the Regulators were paralyzed by the mere
suggestion of such an act as had never before disgraced them, and a
few of the meaner spirits carried the order into execution while the
remainder of the company were literally stupefied.
This was the first wrong done, so far as I knew, by the Regulation,
and nineteen out of every twenty condemned it as brutal and
uncalled-for.
When the punishment was concluded, however, kindly hands took charge
of the unfortunate gentlemen, and if words could have soothed their
wounds, then of a verity had they been made whole while yet the sting
of the lash was upon their flesh.
Master Husband knew full well that he was censured by the majority of
the company, and it was as if from that moment he took the entire
command into his hands, determined that we should have no voice in
whatsoever was done.
Thus it was that that brave company of gentlemen followed blindly a
leader who was very shortly to prove himself a rank coward, raising no
mutiny as would have been done under other circumstances, because we
were facing the enemy and bickerings might bring about a disaster.
When some of us would have accompanied Colonel Ashe and Captain Walker
to Tryon's camp under a flag of truce, Master Husband sternly forbade
any such procedure, and declared that he should hold the gentlemen
prisoners until after the enemy had retreated, or been whipped in
battle.
Next morning, instead of sending out skirmishers, our leader appeared
to think that a written notice from him would be sufficient to
disperse the king's men, and accordingly he wrote what it pleased him
to call a "proclamation," setting forth the fact that the governor had
come contrary to law into counties over which he had abandoned
control, and demanded that he should send answer within four hours
explaining when it would please him to retreat.
We had among us the Reverend David Caldwell of Orange, that good
minister who followed such of his congregation as belonged to the
Regulation, knowing full well a battle was imminent, and believing he
might acceptably serve God and his fellow-man at the time when death
was about to seize upon some of us.
Master Caldwell had been among those who spoke the loudest against
Master Husband's brutality of the previous evening; but now he
accepted the position of messenger in the hope that he might prevail
upon Tryon to draw off and thus avert bloodshed.
The good man disdained to use a flag of truce; but set off trusting
that his cloth would protect him, as indeed it did, for he was
speedily given audience with the enemy.
Governor Tryon received the clergyman graciously; but excused himself
from making a reply to the ill-advised proclamation until noon of the
following day, because, as he said, until then there would not be time
to discuss the matter with such of his officers as were entitled to
consideration.
However, he gave the parson the most positive assurance that no blood
should be shed unless the Regulators began the battle; in other words,
he bound himself to keep his force in leash unless we made an
unprovoked assault.
When Master Caldwell came within our lines again, he had a long
interview with Master Husband, the substance of which none of us knew
thoroughly; but it was whispered among the more knowing, that the
parson had insisted on liberty being given to the two prisoners, and
our leader had flatly refused.
Master Howell and a dozen others who had shared the command of the
company with General Hamilton, were loud in their complaints because
Master Husband refused to send out scouts, and, finally, after no
little bickerings which would have swelled into open mutiny but for
the situation of affairs, they left the bigoted man to himself, and
sent secretly a dozen or more to spy upon the enemy.
By this means we knew that during the night Governor Tryon's force
had crossed the Alamance and marched silently along the Salisbury road
until within half a mile of our camp, where they were formed in battle
order by daybreak.
All this we of the rank and file knew; but our leader remained in
ignorance, and had no suspicion that Parson Caldwell paid a second
visit to the governor before breakfast was served our men, receiving
from him another promise that blood would not be shed by his force
without provocation; but now, having gained the position he desired,
Tryon demanded as the price of peace, that the Regulation should
surrender unconditionally.
This he charged Master Caldwell to repeat to our leader, and when
Master Husband heard it he showed himself, for a short time, as one
who understood somewhat of warfare, for as soon as might be thereafter
he marched us down the road until we were halted within three hundred
yards of the governor's army.
Now did it appear as if the battle was to be fought by words rather
than bullets, for Tryon sent forward under flag of truce a magistrate
from Orange County, who read a lot of high-sounding words to the
effect that we were ordered by the chief ruler of the colony to
disperse within an hour.
Then was come the time when we should have set spurs to our horses and
dashed into the king's lines, for of a verity could we have put them
in full flight within ten minutes; but Master Husband, beginning to
feel the influence of that cowardly fit which so beset him shortly
afterward, ordered Robert Thompson, a gentleman well known among us
all as being of a most peaceful and amiable disposition but prone at
all times to speak his mind, to go into the governor's lines and learn
what arrangements might be made for the settlement of the difficulty.
This command was given secretly, else would Master Thompson never have
been allowed to go forth on such an errand when we were prepared and
eager to measure strength with the enemy.
However, he went, and we remained in the saddle mystified, wondering
why any parley should be held, until we saw our comrade halt in front
of the governor himself.
Now this which I am to about to relate was afterward told me by a
member of Tryon's force. As a matter of course all that we of the
Regulation could see was the movements of the men.
When Master Thompson advanced to the governor, he was told abruptly,
and without even the ordinary civility which is due from one gentleman
to another, to make his way to the rear as a prisoner.
Indignant because of such perfidy, he told the brute Tryon some very
plain truths regarding his actions in the Carolinas, and wheeled about
to return to our lines.
My eyes were upon him at the moment, and Sidney had expressed his
satisfaction at seeing Master Thompson coming toward us in such a
resolute manner, when I saw Tryon seize a musket from the hands of a
militiaman, and shoot the Regulator dead.
At the same instant it was as if the governor realized what he had
done, for the smoke of the musket had hardly more than cleared away
before we saw a flag of truce advance; but the murder of Robert
Thompson was sufficient to arouse us all, and an hundred rifles were
immediately emptied upon the bearer of the flag.
Then it was that we would have advanced without waiting for orders
from Master Husband, but that Parson Caldwell rode swiftly up and down
the line between us and the enemy, imploring the Regulators to
disperse rather than bring civil war upon the colony.
We could not fire upon a man like Master Caldwell, neither was it in
our hearts to ride him down, as we must have done had a charge been
made at that moment; but Tryon, losing his senses through rage, as it
seemed to me, gave the word for the militia to fire.
Not a man obeyed the order.
Parson Caldwell continued to urge that we have forbearance, and again
Tryon called out for his men to shoot, this time addressing the
artillery as well as militia.
It was as if both sides were listening to the entreaties of the
clergyman, when the bully Tryon, maddened with rage, rose in his
stirrups as he shouted frantically:
"Fire! Fire on them or on me!"
This order was given to the entire force, and the men obeyed.
How many of our people fell I know not. On the instant there came
before my eyes a red mist; my brain swam, and I only know that there
was but one desire in my heart, which was to kill--to kill the brute
who had neither the instincts of a man nor the courage of a woman!
We Regulators fired rapidly as we could load and discharge our pieces,
and then suddenly Sidney shouted:
"Come forward, lads! Spur your horses hard and we may take those
cannon, for the men who work them act faint-hearted! Follow me!"
An hundred or more of us responded to this call. Riding forward at
full speed we literally swept the cannoneers from their pieces, and
this done, after many lives had paid the price, we saw that man to
whom General Hamilton had entrusted the command of the gallant
Regulators, ride like a coward down the road a short distance, and
then into the thicket.
Verily I believe there was not one among us save he who would have
shown the white feather even in order to save his own life, and we
cursed him--while we battled against the enemy we cursed him!
What followed I know not of my own knowledge. It was as if a fever had
seized upon me, and when reason returned Sidney and I were in the jail
at Hillsborough, where we remained many a long, dreary month before
finally being allowed to return to our homes under parole.
Here is an account as I have seen it set down by another who wrote at
a later day, when all the facts were known, and in his words shall be
told the remainder of the distressing story which began so bravely,
and ended in shame and in death. [3] "Some young men among the
Regulators rushed forward and took possession of the cannons. They did
not know how to manage them, and soon abandoned them. The military
now fired with vigor, and the Regulators fell back to a ledge of
rocks on the verge of a ravine, not, however, until their ammunition
was exhausted.
"Nine of the Regulators and twenty-seven of the militia fell in that
conflict, and a great number on both sides were wounded. Tryon, in his
report, said, 'The loss of our army in killed, wounded, and missing
amounted to about sixty men.'
"The admitted excesses of the Regulators afford no excuse for the
cruelty of Tryon after the battle on the Alamance. With the implacable
spirit of revenge, he spent his wrath upon his prisoners, and some of
his acts were worthy only of a barbarian. He exacted an oath of
allegiance from the people; levied contributions of provisions;
chastised those who dared to offend him; and at Hillsborough he
offered a large reward for the bodies of Husband and other Regulators,
'dead or alive.'
"At Hillsborough he held a court-martial for the trial of his
prisoners. Twelve were condemned to suffer death; six were reprieved,
and the others were hung. His thirst for revenge satiated, Tryon
returned to his palace at Newbern, where he remained but a short time,
having been called to the administration of affairs in the province of
New York.
"The movements of the Regulators and the result of the battle on the
Alamance form an important episode in the history of our Revolution.
Their resistance arose from oppressions more personal and real than
those which aroused the people of New England. It was not wholly the
abstract idea of freedom for which they contended; their strife
consisted of efforts to relieve themselves of actual burdens. While
the tea-duty was but a 'pepper-corn tribute,' imposing no real burden
upon the industry of the people in New England, extortion in every
form, and not to be evaded, was eating out the substance of the
working men in North Carolina. Implied despotism armed the New
Englanders; actual despotism panoplied the Carolinians. Each were
equally patriotic, and deserve our reverent gratitude. The defeat on
the Alamance did not break the spirit of the patriots; and many,
determined no longer to suffer the oppressions of extortioners,
abandoned their homes, with their wives and children, went beyond the
mountains, and began settlements in the fertile valleys of the
Tennessee."
FOOTNOTE:
[3] Lossing's "Field Book of the Revolution."
THE END.
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