I return you the 15th 16th and 17th chapters which I have kept too long; but since mr Millegan’s arrival I have scarcely had a moment at command. I have made a few verbal alterations only as usual, except in the 15th where I suggest an alteration giving a more precise explanation of the transaction it relates to than your text had done. but I observe an omission of one of the most interesting episodes of the war as to the bringing off the prisoners taken at King’s mountain. it was a chase by a considerable British force sent to rescue those prisoners, after1 a much inferior party bringing them off, continued some hundred miles with a rapidity on both sides unexampled, pushed far into Virginia, close upon the heels of the retiring party which was saved at last by some accident of a swoln river or something of that sort. the whole continent was under anxious alarm while this chase continued, and it ended only at Staunton. I do not remember the commander on either side. I suppose General Moore, or some of the Campbell family most likely to recollect particulars, the former from memory, the latter the tradition of their fathers. I can state no more than what I mention here. but it is strange if all our histories have omitted it. I salute you with esteem & respect.