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قراءة كتاب Sarah Dillard's Ride A Story of the Carolinas in 1780
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Sarah Dillard's Ride A Story of the Carolinas in 1780
Sarah Dillard's Ride.
A Story of the Carolinas in 1780.
By JAMES OTIS.
With Six Page Illustrations by J. Watson Davis.
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
52-58 Duane Street, New York.
Copyright, 1898, by A. L. Burt.
Copyright, 1899, by A. L. Burt.
SARAH DILLARD'S RIDE.
By James Otis.
NOTE.
"They were men admirably fitted by their daily pursuits for the privations they were called upon to endure. They had neither tents, baggage, bread, nor salt, and no commissary department to furnish regular supplies. Potatoes, pumpkins, roasted corn, and occasionally a bit of venison supplied by their own rifles, composed their daily food. Such were the men who were gathering among the mountains and valleys of the Upper Carolinas to beat back the invaders."—Lossing's "Field-Book of the Revolution."
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| A Britisher's Threat | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Tory's Purpose | 25 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| A Desperate Venture | 50 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Struggle | 74 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Sarah Dillard | 99 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Greene's Spring | 123 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| At Watuga | 149 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Prisoner | 174 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| King's Mountain | 200 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| A Hot Chase | 214 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Success | 238 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| "Wheel about, and march back to the house, or I shall shoot," said the Tory. | Frontispiece |
| "You are grown timorous indeed, Evan, if you can imagine that noise to be caused by the Redcoats." | 7 |
| "Take your hands off! I am not to be treated as a prisoner," Ephraim cried. | 32 |
| Nathan did as his comrade suggested, and save for a slight creaking now and then, the work was carried on. | 91 |
| The colt darted forward at full speed with Mrs. Dillard. | 113 |
| Nathan and Evan crept within three feet of the Tory. | 193 |
SARAH DILLARD'S RIDE.
CHAPTER I.
A BRITISHER'S THREAT.
In the year 1780 there was in North Carolina, west of Broad River, and near the site of what is now known as Rutherfordton, a settlement called Gilbert Town.
Within five or six miles of this village on a certain September day in the year above mentioned, two lads, equipped for a hunting trip, had halted in the woods.
One was Nathan Shelby, a boy sixteen years of age, and nephew of that Isaac Shelby whose name is so prominent in the early history of North Carolina; the other, Evan McDowells, son of Colonel Charles McDowells, was one year younger than Nathan.
But for the fact that these two lads were sorely needed at their homes, both would have been enrolled either among the American forces, or with those hardy pioneers who were then known as Mountain Men, for the time was come when the struggling colonists required every arm that could raise a musket.
On the previous month the American forces under General Gates had been defeated by Cornwallis at Camden. Tarleton had dispersed Sumter's forces at Rocky Mount, and the southern colonists appeared to have been entirely subdued by the royal troops.
General Cornwallis, now at Camden, was bending his efforts to establish the king's government in South Carolina, and in punishing those "rebels" who, despite their many reverses, were yet among the mountains awaiting a favorable