Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Odeneal, John March 6, 1781
Revwar - Letters 
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From Vol. VII Of Papers Of Nathanael Greene, Page 405:
	“From Colonel Henry Lee, Jr, John Odeneal’s Farm, NC, 6th March 1781, 7 
o’clock. Dear General, The baggage of the infantry of secured and on its way to 
your old camp [presumably the one at Boyd’s Mill], from which I hear you have 
moved this evening.”

	“Hearing that Colonel Munford was this night to encamp at High Rock 
Ford, the very place the enemy halted about dark, when my last intelligence was 
received, I have dispatched an express to him, advising him to make a forced 
march by a route on the right of the High Rock to join you and telling him I 
will wait and try to join him on his march.”

	“I think three things are left for you, the one to move to the position 
recommended by my letter yesterday, the other to cross the Dan, or to move up 
the mountains, the third to attack the enemy. Do what you will, I pray you to 
organize your army on the principles mentioned by you the other day through 
Major [Ichabod] Burnet. I hope you will not be under the necessity of re-
crossing the Dan. If you move towards the back country, I advise that a party 
be detached into the rear of the enemy’s late camp to efface every impression 
which the enemy’s advance may have on the minds and exertions of the Tories…”

	From a footnote: As seen in Otho Williams’s first letter of 7 March, 
below, Lord Cornwallis’s army stopped its advance northward before reaching 
High Rock Ford. By advising Colonel Robert Munford, whose detachment of 
Virginia militiamen had been in the vicinity of Hillsborough on 4 March, to 
move ‘by a route on the right,’ Lee wanted him to march in a northwesterly 
direction on the High Rock Road. Munford would thus intersect with NG’s army, 
which was moving northeasterly, from Boyd’s Mill towards Chambers Mill, on a 
road that intersected the High Rock Road. It is not known whether Lee joined 
Munford.”


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