Richmond Enquirer

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Veteran Pensioner.—Among the applicants for pensions there is at present in the city a venerable soldier from Chester county, Pennsylvania, who is in the 103d year of his age. His name is Andrew Wallace; he was born at Inverness, Scotland, on the 14th of March, 1730, and arrived in America in 1752. He retains a fine intelligent countenance, and the full possession of his faculties, although his body shakes continually with paralysis. It seems that this individual followed the profession of arms through life from predilection, but without the slightest ambition. Although always steady, temperate, and regular in the discharge of his duties, he never in the course of 29 years service, rose above the grade of an Orderly Sergeant. Before he left Scotland, he was in the battle of Culloden on the side of the Stewarts. Shortly after his arrival in America, he volunteered at Chester, and was appointed an Orderly Sergeant in Captain Hannon's company. This was at the commencement of the French war. The company afterwards became a part of the regular force under Colonel Dark of Virginia, which belonged to the division of Braddock's army commanded by Gen. Forbes. Mr. Wallace was not at the defeat of Braddock, as the command of Forbes was not in that action.

At the commencement of the Revolutionary War, Mr. Wallace immediately enlisted at Turk's Head, (now West Chester) in Church's Company, 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col. Anthony Wayne—was appointed Sergeant, and served in that station to the end of the war. He was engaged in the bloody affair at the Three Rivers, when the attempt was made to burn the British vessels. He was engaged in the battle of the Iron Hills under Col. Wayne, and in the battle of Brandywine where he aided in carrying Gen. Lafayette off the field when wounded. On the night of the 20th of September, 1777, a detachment of British troops, under Gen. Gray, perpetrated a massacre on a small body of American troops—Wallace was in the conflict, and escaped destruction by taking refuge among a cluster of chestnut oak sprouts. He was at the battle of Germantown—the battle of Monmouth—and at last taken prisoner with Capt. Sealey and 18 others in New Jersey. After his exchange, he acted as Sergeant, in the forlorn hope of storming Stony Point. He afterwards marched to South Carolina, and was in the battles of the Cowpens, Eutaw and Camden; and was at the closing scene of the war, at Yorktown.

In 1785 he again enlisted at New Brunswick, New Jersey, under Capt. Lane, and joined the Regiment under Col. Harmar, destined to chastise the Mohawks. These troops were discharged without seeing any service, and in 1786 Wallace again enlisted and continued in the army for three years, lying at the forts on the western waters.

In 1791, Mr. Wallace again enlisted at Philadelphia in the company under Captain Doyle, which afterwards formed part of the force commanded by Gen. St. Clair against the Indians in the West. He was in the terrible slaughter, called St. Clair's defeat, in which he was wounded in the right arm by a ball. His arm was so injured, that it has never since been straight. He, nevertheless, remained in the army and was in the battle fought by Wayne with the Indians in 1794. He afterwards served five years in the 3d U. S. Sub. Legion, under Capt. Pike, the father of the late Gen. Pike. When the Legion was dissolved, he fell into the 2d Regiment in Captain Schuyler's company, and was at last marched to New Orleans in 1812, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Cushing, and was finally discharged in 1813 at the age of eighty, by General Wade Hampton, on account of disability.

This respectable veteran has, we understand, vouchers from gentlemen of high character in Pennsylvania. He has been personally known, for many years, to Col. Isaac Wayne, the son of Gen. Wayne, under whom he served in the revolution and subsequently in the Indian war of the West. He is poor—has a wife and two children—the youngest about 15 years of age; and the pension hitherto received by him from Government amounts only to twenty-six cents per day.—W. Globe.