force.  He then attached himself to his army, and marched early next morning to Ramsour’s, but did not reach there until two hours after the battle, the Tories having been completely defeated by Col.  Locke and his brave associates.  The dead and wounded were still lying where they had fallen, and Gen, Rutherford’s forces assisted in the closing duties of that brilliant victory.  Never afterwards in that county did Tory-loyalism present a formidable opposition to the final success of the American arms.  Of the Whig officers the brave Captains Falls, Dobson, Smith, Knox, Bowman, Sloan and Armstrong were killed, and Captains Houston and McKissick wounded.  Of the Tories, Captains Murray, Cumberland and Warlick were killed, and Capt.  Carpenter wounded.

During the latter part of the year 1780 Gen. Forney was almost constantly in service in different portions of county.  When Cornwallis entered the county in the last week of January, 1781, endeavoring to overtake Gen. Morgan with his prisoners captured at the Cowpens, he was providentially arrested in his march by the swollen waters of the Catawba river.  He then fell back and encamped three days on the plantation of Jacob Forney, Sr., a well to-do farmer and noted Whig, consuming in the meantime, destroying or carrying off, every thing of value belonging to father or son, (Gen. Forney,) consisting of three horses, a large stock of cattle, hogs, sheep, fowls, forage, &c.

After the British army moved from this encampment, Gen. Forney commanded a company and placed themselves on the eastern bank of the river, endeavoring to oppose their crossing, and remained there until the light troops, under Col.  Hall, effected a passage at Cowan’s Ford.  The militia being repulsed, and Gen. Davidson killed, he fled to Adam Torrence’s, hotly pursued by Tarleton’s troop of cavalry.  At this place he found a considerable body of militia, but in great confusion in consequence of the death of Gen. Davidson, and greatly disheartened.  After giving the British one discharge of their arms, and killing several, the militia were repulsed, with small loss, and fled in all directions.  Gen. Forney then retreated across the Yadkin, and remained on Abbot’s creek about six weeks, during which time he had no regular command, and co-operated with other soldiers, whenever it appeared any advantage could be rendered to the American cause.

In the spring of 1871, Gen. Forney commenced repairing his plantation which the British had entirely destroyed, together with that of his father’s in the immediate vicinity, whilst encamped there.  He remained at home until a call was made upon the militia to march to the relief of Wilmington, when he again volunteered and commanded a company of dragoons, associated with Captains White and Lemmonds.  In this expedition Charles Polk was appointed Major of dragoons, Gen. Rutherford in chief command, and marched through the disaffected country around Cross creek, (now Fayetteville,)