This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...Annette Bruye"sant refused to believe in the death of her lover. She had not seen him die; and in the slow, torturing fire of unlimited suspense, her once rosy cheek paled, and her rounded form became every day more and more attenuated and sylph-like. The spring was far advanced'--that dreadful spring of 1781. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...Annette Bruye"sant refused to believe in the death of her lover. She had not seen him die; and in the slow, torturing fire of unlimited suspense, her once rosy cheek paled, and her rounded form became every day more and more attenuated and sylph-like. The spring was far advanced'--that dreadful spring of 1781. The tories who had escaped from the fatal rencontre of King's Mountain, had returned into the.neighborhood, and literally ravaged it with fire and sword. The whigs were led on by desperation to return the aggression, and murders were committed and revenged, until many of the families of the whigs, who were far in the minority, were left without protectors and without food--the crops of the last year having been destroyed--and despair seemed to have benumbed the energies of the wretched survivors/ At this crisis an individual came to the relief off the Buffering inhabitants, and with a generous assiduity, a self-sacrificing zeal, to which history has not and never can do justice, he succored the destitute women and children. Many a " verdant offering to his memory " has been perpetuated in the children of those who felt his protecting benevolence. This man was Gen. Pickens. - On the bank of the river, a little apart from. Vienna, may yet be seen the remains of a fort which. was built for the defense of the early settlers against the Indians. Its walls were built of stone, and formed ten feet high, with port-holes and other appliances of stout resistance. Here Gen. Pickens supported his dependents, and old age and infancy flocked daif to his protecting care. But thanks-to-the cowardice of the tories, and their successive defeats in open combat, this weak garrison was in no danger of attack.-It was more like the residence of! a pleasant...
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