Battle of Bloody Marsh - July 7, 1742

 

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In Their Own Words Entry for July 13, 1742:

1742 Finally, after almost a week, Georgia president William Stephens received some good news from Gen. James Oglethorpe on St. Simons Island:

"July 13. Tuesday. Towards Evening an Express arrived from the General (over land from Darien) with many letters directed to me. . . . Wherein was to be seen the Acct. which the Genl. himself gave, of the late Encounters he had with the Enemy [referring to the Battle of Bloody Marsh], which rejoiced us greatly. . . ."

Source: E. Merton Coulter (ed.), The Journal of William Stephens, 1741-1743 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1959), p. 108.

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