566 TWIGGS COUNTY. 



ment, with sixty grenadiers. Twiggs formed his spirited band 

 so well, that the enemy were totally overcome. The captain 

 was killed, and several other officers, and the remainder taken 

 prisoners. When intelligence of this brilliant affair reached 

 Savannah it produced a great sensation among the British offi- 

 cers. One of them is reported to have said, " that if an angel 

 was to tell him that Capt. Muller, who had served twenty-one 

 years in the King's Guards with his detachment, had been de- 

 feated by an equal number of rebels, he would disbelieve it." 

 Our hero, shortly after this engagement, anxious to inflict pro- 

 per chastisement upon the notorious McGirth, and his party, 

 who were pillaging the property of the citizens, went in pur- 

 suit of these marauders, and overtook them on Buck Head 

 creek ; but unhappily for the cause of humanity, after a short 

 skirmish they made their escape into a swamp, not however 

 without losing a number of their men. On the 12th of Sep- 

 tember, 1779, Colonel Twiggs with his regiment joined Gene- 

 ral Lincoln, at Cherokee Hill, eight miles from Savannah. In 

 the bloody conflict at the latter place he was present, and with 

 Pulaski, Laurens, Mcintosh, Butler, Jones, Jackson, Few, and 

 Baillie, did all that military skill could accomplish, to recover 

 the town from a cruel enemy. Col. Twiggs was favoured 

 with a retentive memory, and long after the drama of the Re- 

 volution closed, he would amuse and interest for hours, the 

 young men who were wont to circle about him, by reciting 

 the incidents of the war. What a privilege must it have been 

 to hear from the lips of the war-worn veteran himself, the re- 

 cital of Pulaski's gallantry, Jasper's daring, and Mcintosh's 

 ardour! What emotions must they have felt when the old sol- 

 dier spoke of the carnage and blood of that siege ! After the 

 unsuccessful enterprise against Savannah, many of the fami- 

 lies of the patriots experienced sufferings of which it is hardly 

 possible to form an idea. Though the family of Col. Twiggs 

 was removed under the protection of a flag, they were actu- 

 ally fired upon by the enemy, and the Colonel himself only 

 escaped by flight. At Gates' defeat at Camden, he was se- 

 verely wounded by a sabre, and left for dead upon the field. 

 After his partial recovery he returned to Georgia, determined 

 not to shrink from the contest for independence. Collecting 



