TIMELINE OF THE BATTALION
MAY 1781
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Mid Month- At Carter's Ferry
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24th- Joined Gen. Steuben at Albemarle Court House
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28th- Departed Albemarle Court House
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30th- Encamped at David Ross's Plantation near Point of Fork
JUNE 1781
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4th- Crossed to South Bank of the James
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5th-
Battle of Point of
Fork, Steuben sends Capt. Kirkpatrick to North Carolina with a dispatch
fot the Governor of that state
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6th- Departed Willis River
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8th- Capt. Kirkpatrick arrives in Granville, North Carolina
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9th- At Charlotte Court House
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10th- Arrives at Coles Ferry on the Staunton River. Steuben receives
word from Kirkpatrick that Gen. Jethro Sumner wishes the battalion to remain
in Virginia
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11th- Depart Coles Ferry
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13th- At Charlotte Court House
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14th- At Prince Edward
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16th- At Carter's Ferry
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19th- Encamped at Col. Dandridge's House in Hanover County, 22 miles
NW of Richmond. Rendezvous with Gen. Anthony Wayne. Febiger takes command
of Battalion.
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23rd- Wayne's camp under alarm, preparing for an engagement with
Cornwallis, but Cornwallis proceeds to Williamsburg.
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25th- Encamped at New Kent Court House.
JULY 1781
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3rd- Position of troops: Gen. Campbell's Rifles in front near Byrd's
Ordinary (sixteen miles from Williamsburg), Febiger's (Gaskins') Virginia
detachment four miles behind Campbell, Wayne and Muhlenberg one and a half
miles farther back, and in their rear the militia and artillery. Febiger
states that the army had not been encamped so closely in nearly three weeks.
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4th- The troops celebrated "Independence" in true camp style, parading
and firing salutes.
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6th-
Battle of Green Springs,
Battalion placed 6 miles back in second line. Gaskins resumes command of
the Battalion as ordered by Lafayette.
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13th- Gaskins Battalion (300 men), Pennsylvanians (500), and Morgan's
Riflemen (500) arrive at James River
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15th- Crossed James River to Chesterfield
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18th- Moved up Appomattox River as far as Goode's Bridge (at border
of Chesterfield and Amelia Counties)
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c. 23rd- Gaskins men threaten not to leave the state for North Carolina
until they receive clothing and pay
AUGUST 1781
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2nd- Moved back to James River
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5th- Crossed James, encamped at Westham Heights
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8th- Marched through Richmond, camped on the Chickahominy River
at Bottom's Bridge. Capt Kirkpatrick is shot by Private James Grant.
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12th- Private James Grant hanged for malicious wounding of Captain
Abraham Kirkpatrick
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16th- Encamped in Newcastle vicinity
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c. 18th- Gaskins Battalion sent to James River by Wayne to separate
from Pennsylvanians
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29th- Crossed James River
SEPTEMBER 1781
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2nd- Moved to Cobham, across the James River from Jamestown
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3rd- Crossed James, laid in the fields at Jamestown, marched to
Green Springs in afternoon
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4th- Arrived in Williamsburg
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8th- Gaskins Battalion placed in Advanced Corps under Muhlenberg
with: a Rifle Regiment, Stevens and Lawsons Militia Brigades. They guarded
roads and passes between Yorktown and Williamsburg.
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15th- Gen. Washington reviews the Virginia Continental Line (Gaskins
Battalion)
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24th- Battalion placed back in Wayne's Brigade, Steuben's Division
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25th- Gen. Steuben inspects Gaskins Battalion
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27th- Marched to encampment outside of Williamsburg
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28th- Steuben's Division encamps between two streams that formed
the Warwick River and in front of the Williamsburg-Hampton Road. Gaskins
Battalion was in the center, Maryland troops were on the left, and Pennsylvanians
were on the right.
OCTOBER 1781
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4th- Gaskins Battalion on duty digging approaches to the First Parallel
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8th- Steuben's Division on duty in First Parallel
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11th- Steuben's Division on duty in First Parallel
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14th- Steuben's Division on duty in First Parallel
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19th-
Gen. Cornwallis Surrenders
British Garrison at Yorktown
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