Record #:

22379

Author(s):

Cameron, Rebecca

Abstract:

Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Webster was a regimental commander in the English Army of Lord Cornwallis. Webster was wounded at the Battle of Guilford Court House and was evacuated toward Wilmington. Taking ill on route he spent his last days at the Bellefort plantation in Bladen County belonging to the patriot leader Hugh Waddell. The disposition of his remains is the subject of some dispute.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 12 Issue 3, January 1913, p195-202

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; Bladen County--History