The New Hampshire Gazette

CHARLES-TOWN, South-Carolina, July 19.

Part of a Letter from the Camp near Ninety Six, July 8.

R. Wilson is dispatched on purpose to get the transports ready, in order to take the troops on board as soon as they arrive at Strawberry.--

When we returned from Etchoee to the field of Battle, I had the mortification to see poor Captain Williams lying above ground, and scalped, Capt. Morrison's head cut off, and scalped, and his body cut in several pieces; even his eye brows were cut off; other carcases lay stripped, and many infamous marks of cruelty and contempt upon them. Since that affair we have seen the miscreants dressed in the regimentals of the slain. Considering the many difficulties we must have encountered, and the great inconveniences we laboured under, I think we had not force enough to attempt the relief of Fort Loudoun.

It is a great error that the Indians were ever furnished with rifled barrel guns, for what we suffered was chiefly owing to that cause, they wounded our men at such a distance as our carbines could scarcely do execution.--The day after we left Keowee, 42 Chickesaws, and 13 white men came to the fort to be revenged on the Cherokees for the murder of two of their people:--There are provisions at fort Prince George for eight months.

It is said that the young Warrior of Estatoe, our inveterate enemy, was killed in the action near Etchoee, for he was seen encouraging his men, whereupon two platoons were ordered to direct their fire that way, and he was not heard or seen afterwards. It is said a tomahawk, blanket, gun, &c. known to be his, were found on the field of battle, and are now in possession of some of our people.

On the 4th inst. one of our provincials was shot within 100 yards of fort Prince George, scalped and his belly ripped open by the Indians.

Col. Montgomery sent down orders for the transports to be ready to carry the troops back to New-York, by the 10th of July.

By Mr. Williamson who left Ninety Six last Sunday we are informed, that the troops marched from thence for Congarees on Friday morning: Capt. Bell, the commandant of that fort, had 40 men in garrison. Mr. Williamson also informs, that the garrison of Fort Loudoun had been supplied with 300 bushels of corn and a quantity of bacon, which the Little Carpenter had procured by a negotiation with Ocononataota.