A Family Narrative Being Reminiscences of a Revolutionary Officer Afterwards J
A Family Narrative Being Reminiscences of a Revolutionary Officer Afterwards J
Francis Tagliaferro Brooke
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LaFayette if he re membered the fine horse that was killed under him, at the bat tle of Green Spring, to which the General replied, the horse was a very fine one, given him by a dear friend of Virginia, 90 A FAMILY NARRATIVE BROOKE 19 who I suppose was Gen. Nelson; but he was not killed under him, he had a leg broken by a six pounder, and he made his bowman cut his throat. ) In a few days after the battle of Green Spring, the single company of artillery of Harrison s regiment to which I be long...ed, was ordered to the South. It was to proceed to Char- lottesville by the way of Goochland Court-House. All the offi cers except myself, had leave to take their homes in their way, and I was left to conduct the company until they should join at the general rendezvous at Cumberland old Court House, where Col. Febiger, a Dane, an officer in the Continental army of Virginia, an excellent tactician, had the command. Left to command the company, I felt it a very arduous task, but I had been long enough in service to know that its disci pline must be preserved, or I could not command it.
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