Declaration of Service
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us of the glorious capture of Lord Cornwallis. We were drawn into a hollow, charged(?), and our colonel informed us of the long wished for news – the probable end of all our _____ and the happy possession of our liberty. We fired a round of muskets – rejoiced over ____ upon our way.
We rested there a day and wheted(?) our ____ and I now felt what I had not felt for years before – that myself and my country’s liberty were safe. I took my final leave of the war at Ramsay’s Mills by a general discharge from Ramsay.
This is the most perfect _____ that I can now give of the events that I knew in the war. I am eighty years of age, very infirm, and have lost my memory. I have forgot all about dates and don’t know the date of my entrance into service or my discharge at any time. I cannot state much about my officers except those immediately over me. As I was shifted about from one commanding officer to another.
I was under at times Gen. Butler, Ramsay, Brinkly(?), Col. Tailor(?), Hale(?), Luttrel, Cleveland at the battle [of King’s Mountain].
I dare say I have transposed some events, But have given those I only detached as they may be, as such have made an indelible impression on my mind.
I have served two tours of three