Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Bruce, Charles March 14, 1781
Revwar - Letters 
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From The Papers Of General Nathanael Greene, Vol. 7, Page 431:
	“From Colonel William Washington, ‘McClintish’s Bridge’ [From footnote: 
This may ‘have been Washington’s spelling of McCuiston’s Bridge, which was on 
Reedy Fork Creek, some three miles from Guilford Courthouse, see Custom House 
Map of Guilford County, NC, or also known as Hughes Map.], 14 March 1781. 
Explains why he remained at ‘McClintish’s Bridge’ until ‘this morning.’ After 
receiving NG’s letter of 12 March, containing NG’s disposition for battle and 
ordering Washington to join him at [Charles] Bruce’s, he got ‘two or three 
verbal messages’ that NG had altered his route. Washington had intended 
to ‘proceed down’ on the ‘right flank’ of the enemy, who were moving ‘this 
morning’ toward Deep River; but having received NG’s letter of ‘this day,’ he 
will march to Bruce’s Mill. ALS (MiU-C), 1 page.” From a footnote: “NG’s letter 
has not been found. The enemy movement may have been a column transporting the 
British army’s baggage to Bell’s Mill on Deep River, as Cornwallis had ordered. 
(Caruther’s Revolutionary Incidents, p. 105). According to NG’s letter to Lee, 
this date, above, Washington was at NG’s camp at Guilford Courthouse on the 
night of 14 March.”


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