This account article is Compiled from Walter Clark, ed., State Records
of North Carolina, vol. XVII (Goldsboro, N.C., 1899), 1002-1007.
My Lord,
I have the satisfaction to inform your Lordship that His Majesty’s Troops
under my command obtained a signal victory on the 15th Inst[ant] over the
Rebel Army commanded by General Greene....The conduct and actions of the
officers and soldiers that compose this little army will do more justice to
their merit than I can by words. Their persevering intrepidity in action,
their invincible patience in the hardship and fatigue of a march of above
600 miles, in which they forded several large rivers, and numberless Creeks,
many of which would be reckoned large rivers in any other country in the
world, without tents or covering against the climate, and often without
provisions, will sufficiently manifest their ardent zeal for the honor and
interests of their Sovereign and their Country....I have the honor to
inclose to your Lordship the list of our killed and wounded....
| Unit: |
Killed |
Wounded |
Missing |
Total |
| Royal Artillery |
2 |
4 |
0 |
6 |
| Brigade of Guards |
37 |
157 |
22 |
216 |
| 23rd Regiment |
13 |
55 |
0 |
68 |
| 33rd |
11 |
63 |
0 |
74 |
| 71st |
13 |
50 |
0 |
63 |
| Regt. von Bose [Hessians] |
10 |
67 |
3 |
80 |
| Yager [Hessians] |
4 |
3 |
1 |
8 |
| British Legion [cavalry] |
3 |
14 |
0 |
17 |
| TOTALS |
93 |
413 |
26 |
532 |
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