Or Fumble and Bumble, General John Butler and Governor Thomas Burke.
Here's a bit of one soldier's recollection of Butler in battle:
Here's a bit of one soldier's recollection of Butler in battle:
In this tour we marched towards Wilmington North Carolina,
but before we reached that place we fell in with a party of the British,
consisting of about 200 at Brown’s Marsh, and fought a battle with them in the
night, in which battle I was wounded by a musket ball, which passed through my
left hip. General William [really, John] Butler, Colonels Moore, William Lytle
and Robert Mebane were all in this battle, but which of them was at the head of
our party I do not know, though I think it was Colonel Mebane. General Butler
was there at the beginning of the action, but left us very soon. Some say the
General’s horse got scared and ran off with him, but others said the General
got scared and ran off with his horse. How the fact was I know not.”
This sort of research is possible because of the work of Will Graves and C. Leon Harris.
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