rest of the riflemen, he charged up the lane towards the front with such ardor and such a shouting that the whole enemy force gave way at once and fled, only to meet a sharp fire from Davidson's riflemen by which 60 were killed or wounded. Davie collected 96fully equipped horses and 120 stand of arms and hastily retired to his camp at Providence before troops sent by Cornwallis could arrive on the scene. His loss was one man wounded. It may be noted that Tarleton himself at this time was ill and absent from his command." On September 25 Cornwallis resumed his northward march from the Waxhaws towards Charlotte in North Carolina, with Tarleton's Legion and light infantry in advance of the main body. Davie, with 20 horsemen, Davidson's two companies of riflemen, and a small body of Mecklenburg militia under Major Joseph Graham, was in Charlotte, a village of twenty dwelling houses and a courthouse, when Cornwallis's van approached. Davie posted his 20 dragoons behind a stone wall near the courthouse, the rest of his men behind fences on both sides of the road to it. The infantry of the British Legion, commanded by Major George Hanger, and the light infantry deployed in line across that road and moved slowly up towards the courthouse, to be received with a close fire from the men behind the fences. From this they recoiled, though Cornwallis himself urged them on. Hanger ordered the Legion cavalry to dislodge Davie's dragoons behind the stone wall. They charged, but were stopped by the fire of the 20 men, and would not again go forward. As Stedman says, "The whole of the British army was actually kept at bay for some minutes by a few mounted Americans, not exceeding twenty in number." Davidson's and Graham's troops abandoned their fences and joined the dragoons. Under the repeated orders of Cornwallis, the Legion infantry and the light infantry again attacked and succeeded in turning Davie's right flank. He ordered a retreat. He was pursued for several miles and lost 30 killed, wounded, or captured. The British lost 15 killed or wounded. It maybe remembered that, in June, when Cornwallis was sending various expeditions to occupy posts throughout South Carolina, he had detached Major Patrick Ferguson with his American Volunteer regiment to cover the country between the Catawba and Saluda rivers. Ferguson went on to join Lieutenant Colonel Balfour, who was holding the post at Ninety-six. Thence he moved a few miles east and established his camp on Little River. It became a rallying post for large numbers of South Carolina Tories, whom he organized into seven regiments, about 4,000men. With this strong force, Ferguson held the district of Ninety-six--the "upcountry"--in complete subjection, sending detachments in every direction to harass and plunder the rebels and making every effort to encourage the Tories to join the King's army. At the time Cornwallis marched north from Camden, he sent orders to Ferguson to move from Ninety-six into North Carolina to spread the gospel of loyalism there and finally to join the main army at Charlotte. Late in September, Ferguson was at Gilberttown in what is now Rutherford County, North Carolina. He had in mind the interception of a force of Carolinians and Georgians under Colonel Elijah Clark, which had made an unsuccessful attempt upon Augusta in Georgia, had been beaten off, and was now, with 300 men and 400 women and children, endeavoring to avoid the British forces in South Carolina and escape into the Old North State. But trouble was brewing for Ferguson behind the mountains to the westward. End Part II