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corn made into cakes ; not a drop of any kind of spirit ; what little there 
had been was already consumed by the first and second brigades ; many 
officers to comfort themselves put red pepper into water to drink by way 
of cordial. 
On the arrival of the ti’oops at Charlottesville the officers, what with 
vexation and to keep out the cold, drank rather freely of an abominable 
liquor called peach brandy, which, if drunk to excess, the fumes raise 
an absolute delirium, and in their cups sevei'al were guilty of deeds that 
would admit of no apolog}". The inhabitants must have actually thought 
us mad, for in the course of three or four days there were no less than 
six or seven duels fought. 
The officers were allotved to go into the surrounding country 
in search of c{uarters ; the Englishmen within a fixed circuit 
which extended be}mnd Richmond on the east ; the Germans 
wdtliin a similar circuit, chiefly within the Shenandoah valley 
and including Staunton. Captain Auburey has left a most in- 
teresting account of his experiences in his book of travels pub- 
lished in London in 1789. In the Memoirs of the Baroness von 
Riedesel, wdio was with the German troops, may be found a 
narrative which is even more instructive. The barracks -were 
about six miles north of Charlottesville, near Ivy creek, on a 
plantation now belonging to Mr Carr. Here the troops were de- 
tained until November, 1780, when the advance of the British 
through the Carolinas rendering their capture ])robable, they Avere 
marched northward. The British were moved to Maryland and 
thence to Connecticut; the Germans to Winchester, in the Shen- 
andoah valley. 
Some of the Germans, it is said, Avere quartered upon the 
estate of General Daniel Morgan, in Avhat is iioaV Clarke county, 
and Avere emplo3'^ed by him to build the great stone mansion, 
still standing, Avliich he named “ Saratoga ” in memory of the 
place associated Avith his triumpli and their defeat. In 1780 a 
considerable number of other prisoners cajAtured at tlie CoAvpens 
and in South Carolina Avere also brought to Alhemarle. These 
men Avere liberated by the British at the time of Tarleton’s raid. 
It is a curious fact that some Avho had married here Avhile in 
captivity deserted fnmi the British lines at Yorktown and re- 
turned here to live. It is said that some of their descendants 
still live in Albemarle. 'I'he position of Albemarle u[)on the 
frontier again gave it prondnence in 1781, when the governor 
and legislature of \drginia having be<m driven from Bichmond 
by the British invasion, (.Charlottesville became the tem[)orary 
capital of the state. 
