of the use of the spring, an operation which it has been conceded by military critics if accomplished at an earlier period of the siege would have resulted in the fall of the garrison before it could have been relieved. As it was, Cruger, commanding the garrison, managed to prolong his defense by sinking wells in the star redoubt. Terms of capitulation had been proposed which Greene refused, believing he could still take the place by pushing the sap against the star redoubt under Kosciusko's directions. The approach of Lord Rawdon with the relieving force blasted his hopes.
A corps was detached to meet Rawdon while an assault upon an incomplete breach was hazarded. Some skirmishing between Rawdon's advance guard and this corps took place in Saluda Old Town, in which some were killed and several wounded. A young lieutenant from Virginia by the name of Wade was shot, and as he fell from his saddle, with a genuine trooper's care for his steed, forgetting himself, exclaimed to his comrades: "Don't let my borse fall into the hands of the enemy." He was carried to the house of Samuel Savage and finally
recovered. The Americans fell back, and the combatants had not long swept by when a young dragoon officer with a white plume and the cockade of the Whigs in his hat, and accompanied by an orderly, rode up to Mr. Savage's
