Abbeville County ScArchives Obituaries.....LOGAN, Andrew April 14, 1856
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The Abbeville Banner, issue of April 24, 1856
From "The Abbeville Banner", Abbeville, South Carolina
Newspaper Issue of April 24, 1856

ANOTHER SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION GONE

DIED, on the 14th inst., at his residence near Greenwood in this District, 
Capt. Andrew LOGAN, at the advanced age of 93 years.  Capt. Logan in the bloom 
of manhood, was present at the siege of Ninety-Six which began on the morning 
of the 23rd of May 1781; and afterwards became an active partizan in the 
desultory warfare sustained by the gallant Moore and his compatriots against 
the predatory and remorseless bands of Tories who ravaged the country on the 
disastrous retreat of Green from Ninety-Six.  Near the close of the same year, 
1781, he marched with Gen. Pickens on his famous expedition against the 
Cherokee Indians; in which, at the head of three hundred and ninety four 
mounted men, in a campaingn of only fourteen days, burned thirteen towns, 
killed forty Indians and took a large number of prisoners without the loss of a 
man from his party.

In private life, he weas a most indulgent father and master; temperate in his 
habits, indefatigably industrious, just to all men and punctiliously honorable; 
amiable and retiring in his disposition, but of iron will, and a physical 
constitution whose strength it required near a century to exhaust.  A soldier 
in his early life, in the cause of human right, it was the glory of his old age 
to live and die a soldier of the Cross.  The natural force of his mind was not 
perceptibly abated to the last; and his body, though not so active as once, was 
still stalwart and straight as an arrow. He passed away calmly as "sinks the 
gale when storms are o'er", surrounded by his children of three generations, 
exulting in the prospect of a glorious immortality.
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