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Horatio Gates

Horatio Gates, the general who had stopped the British at Saratoga, commanded the American army defeated at Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, and in the following weeks regrouped its remnants at Hillsborough before Congress replaced him and Nathanael Greene took command.

Source: U.S. Army: The Battle of Camden, August 16, 1780 (John R. Maass, Center of Military History)

–1806 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Horatio Gates, 1793
Horatio Gates, 1793

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August-September, 1780: Joint Select Committees (Reports of and messages concerning)

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

Reports and messages of joint select committees from August and September 1780, when the General Assembly met at Hillsborough after the defeat at Camden. Committees worked on supplies and provisions for the army and the adjustment of public claims. Horatio Gates, Richard Caswell, Abner Nash, William Hooper, hospitals, surgeons, cavalry and wagons all appear. 88 pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806.

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Governors' Papers: Abner Nash, Correspondence, September 1780

Brice, Francis · 1780

September 1780 letters of Governor Abner Nash, 40 images, from the weeks after the defeat at Camden. Francis Brice is among the writers, and Horatio Gates, William Lee Davidson, Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress are named, together with Hillsborough and Orange County.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806.

NC Digital Collections DPLA

Senate Joint Resolutions: August 30-September 13

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

Senate joint resolutions of 30 August to 13 September 1780, in the weeks after the defeat at Camden, 96 images. Among them are a rejected resolution about militia routed in South Carolina, a commission for Captain William Williams in the Invalid Corps, and a rejected request that General Horatio Gates gather the Continental troops. Hillsborough figures in the session.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806.

NC Digital Collections DPLA

Letters from Lord Cornwallis regarding incursions into North Carolina, General Gates' movement to Hillsborough, interruptions during the movement of prisoners of war to Charleston and attacks by rebel forces

1780

Cornwallis reported in 1780 on incursions into North Carolina, on Horatio Gates moving toward Hillsborough, on interruptions to the movement of prisoners of war to Charleston, and on attacks by rebel forces. Militia, scouts, supplies, ordnance stores and garrison duty are among the subjects, with Camden, Augusta, Ninety Six and Waxhaw as places. The listed enclosures are not included. Colonial Office series CO 5/238, military despatches.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Gates, Horatio.

Duke NC State

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  1. Thomas Burke takes up his neighbors' complaints against army plundering Home from Congress in 1780, Burke found troops around Hillsborough grazing horses on growing corn, pulling down haystacks and taking cattle, wagons and smokehouse stores. He warned local officials, wrote to the president of Congress and to General Gates, and Nash credits him with largely stopping the abuse in Orange. People: Horatio GatesSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 76
  2. Horatio Gates, on his way to the Southern Army, presses the governor for supplies from Hillsborough Writing from Hillsborough, Gates told Governor Abner Nash that the army's commissary and quartermaster departments were in a deplorable state, asked the state to set up magazines of provisions and forage and to supply 700 tents for its militia, and urged Nash to come to Hillsborough himself. People: Abner NashSearch the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 15, pp. 3-4: Letter from Horatio Gates to Abner Nash, July 19, 1780
  3. Gates regroups the defeated southern army at Hillsborough after Camden After the American defeat at Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, Gates gathered the remnants of his army at Hillsborough. On September 3 he reported from the town that the Maryland division and the artillery were there being refitted and that nearly 500 regulars were marching from Petersburg to join them.Search the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 15, pp. 65-66: Letter from Horatio Gates to George Washington [Extract], September 3, 1780
  4. From Hillsborough, Gates thanks the victors of Kings Mountain On receiving the news of Major Ferguson's defeat at Kings Mountain, Gates wrote from Hillsborough thanking the commanding officers and ordering the prisoners sent under guard to Fincastle Court House, Virginia. The same day he told Governor Thomas Jefferson he would move the whole army to the Yadkin once supplies arrived. People: Thomas JeffersonSearch the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 15, pp. 115-116: Letter from Horatio Gates to the American officers at the Battle of King's Mountain, October 12, 1780
  5. Gates marches the southern army out of Hillsborough toward Salisbury The Board of War concluded that Hillsborough and Orange County could not feed the army through the winter and persuaded Gates to move toward Salisbury, where provisions were thought to be more plentiful.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 52

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Picture: Horatio Gates, 1793. Public domain. Photograph by Gilbert Stuart; Downloaded from The Athenaeumoriginal is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.; via Wikimedia Commons

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