A Devil of a Whipping

by Lawrence E Babits

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  DISSERTATIONS, THESES, AND UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

  Babits, Lawrence E. “Military Documents and Archaeological Sites: Methodological Contributions to Historical Archaeology.” Ph.D. diss., Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1981.

  Bartholomees, James B. “Fight or Flee: The Combat Performance of the North Carolina Militia in the Cowpens—Guilford Courthouse Campaign, January to March 1781.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1978.

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  Strack, Stephen G. “History of the Three Pound Verbruggen Gun and Its Use in North America.” Ms. on file, Cowpens National Battlefield, Chesnee, S.C., n.d.

  Index

  Abbeville, S.C., 141

  Abercrombie, James, 18

  Adair, James, 40, 173 (n. 84)

  Adams, William, 27

  Adams Ford, S.C., 49, 51

  African Americans, 52, 132, 134, 135

  Aide(s)-de-camp, 24, 25, 52, 78, 97

  Alexander, James, 171 (n. 58)

  Alexander, Keith, 171 (n. 45)

  Allison, Hugh, 79

  Amherst, Nova Scotia, 148

  Ammunition, 11, 15, 52, 55, 56, 103, 105, 137, 162 (n. 15), 179 (n. 45); buckshot, 13, 103, 106, 165n

  Anderson, Leonard, 58, 72

  Anderson, Richard, 27, 77, 120

  Anderson, Robert, 40, 75

  Anderson, Thomas, 82, 95, 118, 191 (n. 38), 209

  Armstrong, Abel, 36

  Army, British:

  —artillery, 47, 49, 57, 65, 78, 82, 106, 125, 155, 167 (n. 46); firing, 84, 86–89; cannon, 86–87, 201 (n. 5); capture, 120–22, 127

  —British Legion, 1, 8, 15, 44, 45, 49; postwar, 148–49

  —dragoons, 18, 46, 47, 5
9, 82, 84, 95, 99, 101, 106, 107, 126, 127, 129, 130, 153, 154, 175 (n. 120); on the right flank, 106, 107, 109, 117, 125–26, 207; Hovenden’s Troop, 82, 179 (n. 50), 187 (n. 9); Ogilvie’s Troop, 59, 84, 101, 155, 187 (n. 9), 188 (n. 18); Sandford’s Troop, 148–49

  —infantry, 46, 57, 127, 157, 159, 175 (n. 120), 187 (n. 14), 197 (n. 102), 199 (n. 25); at militia line, 83, 84, 85, 86, 91, 94, 95; at main line, 101, 104, 105; spacing of, 104, 105, 187 (n. 14)

  —Light infantry, 46, 56, 57, 83, 84, 186, 157, 159, 187, 206 (n. 28); of 71st Regiment, 8, 45, 92, 158, 111, 206 (n. 28); spacing of, 17, 104, 187 (n. 14); of Prince of Wales American Regiment, 45, 144, 149, 197 (n. 102); of 16th Regiment, 45, 197 (n. 102); at militia line, 91, 92, 94; at main line, 101, 104, 105, 123

  REGIMENTS:

  —1st Dragoon Guards, 44

  —16th Light Dragoons, 44

  —17th Light Dragoons, 46, 47, 84, 106, 109, 119, 125, 126, 131, 187 (n. 9); against S.C. militia, 97–99, 125, 154–55, 161 (n. 6); against Washington, 99, 125–26, 130

  —7th Fusiliers, 9, 45, 47, 49, 50, 57, 137, 138, 153, 157, 188 (n. 18), 197 (n. 102), 199 (n. 25); forming, 84–87, 188 (n. 18); at militia line, 91; at main line, 101, 105, 106, 113, 115

  —71st (Fraser’s Highlanders, Highlanders), 44, 45, 49, 57, 77, 84, 101, 144, 150, 153, 188 (n. 18); against McDowell, 106–9, 194 (n. 27), 207; at main line, 110–12; tactics, 111, 113, 194 (n. 45); charge, 113–17, 119, 195 (n. 47); collapse/fatigue, 117–20, 122, 125, 127, 155–59, 197 (nn. 99, 100)

  Army, Continental: at Charlotte, N.C., 5, 111

  CONTINENTALS, 52, 55, 62, 71, 76, 95, 141, 150–52, 153

  —Light infantry, 76, 111, 145, 169 (n. 18); at New Providence, 6; in Virginia, 28

  —Howard’s, 67, 69, 82, 101, 102, 117, 120, 129, 155

  —1st Continental Light Dragoons, 41

  —3rd Continental Light Dragoons, 25, 40, 41, 48, 51, 72, 78, 79, 139, 151, 155; against 17th Light Dragoons, 87, 99, 125; against Ogilvie, 115, 126; in counterattack, 117, 119, 120, 127–29; during pursuit, 134–37; weapons of, 19, 166 (n. 38), 167 (n. 40); smallpox, 140–41

  —4th Continental Light Dragoons, 41

  DELAWARE:

  —Regiment, 41, 129

  —Company, 27, 32; at main line, 103, 105, 106, 112, 113, 115, 191 (n. 38), 209; counterattack, 118; pursuit, 133–34, 151