The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, December 17, 1891, Image 2
&he Jarlington JRfUJ*.
Tharsday, Dec. iJ, 1891.
10 VICTORY OR DEATH.
fttNEDICT ARNOLD’S RIDE ON HIS
BLACK WAR HORSE.
tl« Turned the Scale at the Hattie of
Saratoga bj Heroic Exposure of Ills
Person and Stirring Appeals to the Sol
diery.
(Copyright by Antericau Press Association ]
AD Arnold died
in harness at Sar-
at'W* one dark
pa^e of American
aquaIm trould not
have appeared. He
was too great a
man to be ignored
in awarding the
honors of history
to lievolutionary
heroes, and that
very greatness
lifts into impor
tnnoe. the pitiful
' fiasco on the Hud
son that blasted
his brilliant ta
n?er.
The 7th of Octo
her, 1777, seale<l
the doom of Brit
ish domination in
the colonies. Oi.
that day Burgoyne set out to crush the
Revolutionists on his front, and crown his
victorious inarch from Canada to the iute
rior by attaining Alimny and a Junction
with Gen. Clinton, who was making equal
ly successful progress up the Hudson. No
foreign power had as yet recognized Anier
ican independence, and the eyes of the
world were literally turned upon militar
events then passing on the line of the Hud
son and the little lakes. Burgoyne was a
leader fitted for his task, and had the How
er of British regulars and German auxil
iarirs. His opponent, Gates, had the stipe
rior force In numbers, hut many of hit*
troops were militia and volunteers for the
campaign—fair weather soldiers,whose efii
ciency depended upon their being kept at
a white heat of enthusiasm.
Burgoyne moved a column forward to
flank Gates on the left, but the attempt
was discovered in the American camp, and
was foiled by sharp tactics and by a coun
ter attack. Arnold was in his tent, a gen
eral without a command. Gates had de
prived him of his soldiers by detaching the
division he had previously commanded, sc
as to bring it iMider Gen. Lincoln, ami
without displacing Arnold by positive or
dors had ignored his presence in camp in n
manner to indicate that the commanding
general would gladly lie rid of him.
When the liattUi began in earnest Arnold
said to his aid* “No man shall keep me in
uiy tout today. If I am without a com
mand 1 will fight in the ranks; but the
soldiers, God bless them! will follow my
lead. Come on, victory or death!*’ Then
leaping into bis aaddle on the back of hi>
black war horse Warren, named for Ih*
hero of Bunker Hill, be galloped, or rath>~#
flew, on his thoroughbred steed across u
field to the post of danger. Gates nuf
riedly dispatched an aid after the im|>etii
oils soldier, with a peremptory order for
him to return to camp. “He might d<
some rash tiling,” was the explanation ac
companying the order. Arnold saw the
aid approaching him across the field, and
giving Warren the rein he sped on out oi
reach and found one of his own brigades.
The soldiers received him with wild cheers,
another Marudou on the field of Floddeu,
and he immediately dashed against tin
British center. In the forefront of Lh<
fight he rode erect, brandishing his sword,
shouting orders and appealing to men, and
so rapid were his movements and changes
of positiou that Gates’ aid was unable to
get within speaking distance and order
the inspired war god back to his tont.
Fortunately for the cause of American
freedom, no other aid hod butler luck, and
Arnold and his black horse kept in the van
of the Americans the remainder of the day.
The foes in front of Arnold were the
Uussuois under liiusede.l and British regu
Urs under Phillips. Burgoyne’s right and
left flanks hud been broken, but his ceutei
was made firm by a line of his liesl Genua;
troops under able commander*. Arno!-
was repulsed in his first charge and wen
at it again, riding at the very front of hi
mow. This is a commonplace sayii^ am
often moan* nothing, but in Arnold's cum
it was literally true. This was Arnold’.'
way on many occasions, and especially uj»oi
this one. Some time before that he hub
Sid out hn a battlefield, saying, “You will
hear of my being victorious or no more
His conduct at Saratoga has been called
“rash,” “frantic,” “mad,” “frenzied,’
"furious” nod “drunken”—this lost fron
Galas, who was not upon the field at all
And Arnold was not alone in his high valoi
at Saratoga. Across the lines, in Bur
goyne's camp, there was another war god
incarnate iu the j>crson of Gen. Fraser, t
man t*) lead picked companies, forlon
hopes and desperate enterprises.
nis cononet at tins time nas nad no many '
chroniclers among actual participant* that
the record Is filled with his notable exploit*.
His ringing voice animated the men, and
spurring his black steed into every peril he
made himself a part of every event of the
oonflict. At one time he hailed a march
ing regiment, and found that it contained
some Norwich and Loudon soldiers. "I am
glad to ace you,” he exclaimed with a wel
come. “Now, comq on, boys; if the day is
long enough we'll have them all in be
fore night.”
Arnold failed in his attack on Balcarras,
his first and only complete repulse of the
day. Between Balcarras and the German
hill redoubt there was a curtain formed of
low breastworks and a couple of stockades,
into which Burgoyne had hastily throw n a
force of Canadian ami Tory volunteers.
As Arnold turned away front Balcarras’
impregnable position he saw’ the old bri
gade (learned’s), part of his division that
hail fought with him before the British re
treat. Without a halt he led this force
against the stockades, broke through the
line, and thus cut off the Germans on the
hill. Neither did this success satisfy or
give excuse for a halt. Leaving the freshly
gained works to the men who had entered
them, Arnold galloped off to the left to
ward the hill, ami in so doing passed be
tween the fire of the contending troops.
In front of the hill he found two willing
regiments and Morgan’s riflemen, and in
structing their leaders to make an attack
on the direct front, led in person a single
regiment around under the shelter of the
hill, between the Germans and the Can
adians and Tories, whom he hod just
"DON’T HURT HIM!”
routed in their stockades. From this point
Im rushed for the roar of the Hessian strong
hold, it seems to t>e a fact that Arnold’s
personality alone won the hill from the
Germans. This height completely domi
uatod Burgoyue’s camp, and was placed in
good hands for defense, the German regu
Ian* under Gen Bre.yman.
Arnold’s conspicuous figure on his foam
ing black horse h;ui attracted the alien
lion of the opposing soldiery at various
(Miriods of the conflict, and his sudden ap
(lennutce In the rear of t heir fortress—for he
gained the sally port—spread dismay in
their ranks, and tiring one wild volley they
fled the other way, only to be received in
. h a direction by the troops Arnold had
r » deevd to act in concert on the front. In
!.he face of that parting volley Arnold went
down, shot through the same leg that had
tssm disabled at Quebec, and ids horse fell
• lend the same lust ant. The contest
ritg»*l on for a few minutes, the German
leader attempting to hold out, and losing
his life in Lite effort. It whs nightfall, tin
[Mtint. was gained, and although the space
iutiM-vening lx*twoen the height and thi-
miUii line where Balcarras commanded
was ii‘oovert:d by the British after Arnold
quit the scentt on the heels of the first sue
cess, the Americans clung to the hill and
Burgoyne evacuated his iutrenchments iu
the darkness. He knew that the key was
tost and hi* fortified ground was untenable.
After shifting from ixdnt to point without
twit tie he surrendered at the end of a week,
Two months later France mode a treaty
acknowledging the independence of the
United Slates. Spain and Holland pood
followed the example set by the Bourbons,
and foreign fleets and troops certainly gave
heart, if not actual strength, to the revolu
lionisiH. For the victory at Saratoga con
gr»*Ks passed a vote of thanks to Gens
Gates, Lincoln ami Arnold. Lincoln was
sarond in comnmad, but like his chief be
•.hfctained from appearing on the battle
field that <lay. Congress also granted
right for which Arnold had long sued in
vain—a recognition of his proper rank
among the major generals of the army
Saratoga was Arnold’s last battle for free
dom, and his last moments there were the
grandest of his lifa. When Ids noble war
horse Warren fell, carrying him down
with a bullet through his thigh Ixme, he
turned to the men who followed with the
final exhortation, “Hush on, my brave
boys, rush on!” Heretofore it had been
“Come on!” But Arnold could no longei
lead.
The German soldier who shot Arnold
bad been “spotted” by some one in thi
American ranks and wounded, and auothei
soldier, maddened at the picture of hh-
fallen chief, drew up to plunge bis bayonet
through the unfortunate Hessian. Arnolo
saw the movement, and par ly rising fron,
his position and leaning upon the body o.
his horse, he motioned the angry patriot
to stop. “Don’t hurt him,” said he. “He
is a fine fellow.”
Says the latest biographer of Arnold
(Isaac N. Arnold): “Ho who could thus
save the life of a helpless enemy, while
writhing from a wound just inflicted by
that enemy, could not I wive bee u wauling
iu generosity. This was the hour for lien
edict Arnold to have died.”
Yes, death coming at that hour, in tin
excitement of a glorious victory won b)
his valor, and with that chivalrous bene
diction upon his lips, would h ive made tin
name of Arnold one of “fame’s few bu;
immortal ones,” instead of what it now i-
r —a synonym for political infamy.
Gkorok L. ICilmhj
“TO VICTORY OU DEATH!*’
What Arnold became to the Ainericam
the moment he appeared on the field
Fraser had been during the whole fight tc
the British. When Arnold broke the
Hessian lines in his second impetuom
charge, and sent them reeling bock in wile
disorder. Fraser rallied the men, and b)
voice and example brought them to a state
and saved them from rout. He rode ai
iron gray horse, and was as conspicuous ii*
the British front as Arnold was in tin
American. Seeing this, Arnold called th<
attuutiou of Col. Daniel Morgan, who led
a select body of riflemen, to Fraser’s per
eon, and said: “That officer upon the gru\
horse is himself a host and m ist be dis
posed of. Direct the attention of some of
th* sharpshooters among your riflemen t«
trial.”
Morgan stationed a file of men in aclum^
of busiies with orders to pick off tiie mat;
ou the gray horse. In a few minutes tin
gallant Briton full, refusing to fly when
it became evident that he was being mail;
a special target.
The mortal wounding of Fraser was i
turning point iu the battle. The ftgbtini
bud thua far been in open field, midway bo
tween the h*i»ii}e cutups, where the collis
ion had boeu accidental. That is, Bur
goyue’s attack on the American flunk had
been anticipated, and detachments of Gates’
army had issued from their iatr* r.cl.incuts
and fallen upen the movable British col
umn. Arnold’s impetuous assaults, end
ing in the disablin'.' of Burgoyne’* chief
lieutenant, threw the enemy’s line into a
panic, followed by a hasty retreat to the
iutrcTv-hmrnu. A rapid pursuit led the
Amrn an* .'g.q.i.st t.h* right flank of the
British ’.rorks. and under the exci
of the l our—-excitenj'-nt which, thanks to
Arnold's valor, w:w not allowed to flag —
IIku Nuccesx was pus he* 1 to the extreme.
Tlw; British r»>;ht was protected by in
'trenchmci.ra shotted like u horseshoe, ter-
luiu.sriiig in m str*»Dt; redoi !>t, all held by
the Germans. These were located ou a
hill, and a ravine separated them from the
main lin*- of trendies and redoubts that
stretched to the river in the form of an ir
regular m*:. Tlie right of the main line
was heM by British light infantry, under
Earl Balcarras, and Arnold led portions of
brigade* against the works at that point,
carrying the outer line by a bayonet charge.
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Auditor’s Office,
Darlington, S. C.,
December 1, 1891
This office will be open for the pur
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for the fiscal year, commencing Nov.
1st, 1891, and ending Oct. 81st, 1892,
from Jan. 1st, 1892, to Feb. 20th. ex
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Xf. H LAWRENCE,
County Auditor.
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