FIFTH NORTH CAROLINA Continental Regiment . HIS LIFE, MILITARY CAREER, AND DEATH WHILE A WOUNDED PRISONER IN PHILADELPHIA DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI AT ITS MEETING HELD IN HILLSBOROUGH, JULY 4, 1901. BY Marshall DeLancey Haywood . PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. RALEIGH: ALFORD, BYNUM & CHRISTOPHERS, PRINTERS, 1901. ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI AT ITS MEETING HELD IN HILLSBOROU

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Society : It is no small privilege which the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati enjoys when it meets in this ancient Revolutionary capital, for here our organization was first brought into being. The year of grace 1783, which is the date of its birth, was one of mingled joy and depression to the people of America. The war, it is true, had been fought to a successful close; and, by a treaty wherein they were separately specified, King George had acknowledg