CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PREFACE.
AMERICA.
WASHINGTON'S NAME.
WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION.
IMPORTANT CHARACTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE.
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON APRIL 19, 1775.
SIGNERS OF DECLARATION.
LIFE AT VALLEY FORGE.
OLD WILLIAMSBURG.
SONG OF THE REVOLUTION.
A TRUE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION.
GEORGIA.
FORTS OF GEORGIA.
JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE.
THE CONDITION OF GEORGIA DURING THE REVOLUTION.
FORT RUTLEDGE OF THE REVOLUTION.
THE EFFORTS OF LAFAYETTE FOR THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
JAMES JACKSON.
EXPERIENCES OF JOAB HORNE.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MARGARET KATHERINE BARRY, KNOWN AS "KATE BARRY, HEROINE OF THE COWPENS."
ART AND ARTISTS OF THE REVOLUTION.
"UNCLE SAM" EXPLAINED AGAIN.
AN EPISODE OF THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
STATE FLOWERS.
THE COUNTIES OF GEORGIA.
AN HISTORIC TREE.
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
KITTY.
BATTLE OF KETTLE CREEK.
THE DARING EXPLOIT OF GRACE AND RACHAEL MARTIN.
A REVOLUTIONARY PUZZLE.
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE REVOLUTION.
LYMAN HALL.
A ROMANCE OF REVOLUTIONARY TIMES.
"FT. MOTTE."
PETER STROZIER.
INDEPENDENCE DAY. (2)
SARAH GILLIAM WILLIAMSON.
A COLONIAL HIDING PLACE.
A HERO OF THE REVOLUTION.
JOHN PAUL JONES.
THE REAL GEORGIA CRACKER.
THE DYING SOLDIER WHO GAVE HIS WIFE FOR HIS FRIEND.
WHEN BEN FRANKLIN SCORED.
A REVOLUTIONARY BAPTIZING.
GEORGE WALTON.
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY.
THE OLD VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN.
WHEN WASHINGTON WAS WED.
RHODE ISLAND IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
GEORGIA AND HER HEROES IN THE REVOLUTION.
UNITED STATES TREASURY SEAL.
WILLIE WAS SAVED.
VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY FORTS.
UNCROWNED QUEENS AND KINGS, AS SHOWN THROUGH HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE REVOLUTION.
A COLONIAL STORY.
MOLLY PITCHER FOR HALL OF FAME.
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS.
TRAGEDY OF THE REVOLUTION OVERLOOKED BY HISTORIANS.
JOHN MARTIN.
JOHN STARK, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
CAPTAIN MUGFORD RAN THE BRITISH BLOCKADE AND CAPTURED POWDER SHIP.
GOVERNOR JOHN CLARKE.
PARTY RELATIONS IN ENGLAND AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
EARLY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION BY LAND AND WATER.
COLONEL BENJAMIN HAWKINS.
GOVERNOR JARED IRWIN.
EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
NANCY HART.
BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN.
WILLIAM CLEGHORN.
THE BLUE LAWS OF OLD VIRGINIA.
ELIJAH CLARKE.
GENERAL FRANCIS MARION.
"LIGHT HORSE HARRY."
OUR LEGACY.
THE RIDE OF MARY SLOCUMB.
THE HOBSON SISTERS.
WASHINGTON'S MARCH THROUGH SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
HANNA ARNETT.
BUTTON GWINNETT.
"FORCED BY PIRATES TO WALK THE PLANK."
GEORGIA WOMEN OF EARLY DAYS.
ROBERT SALLETTE.
GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO MACON.
YES. TOMORROW'S FLAG DAY.
FLAG DAY.
END OF THE REVOLUTION.
COUNTIES OF GEORGIA BEARING INDIAN NAMES.
STORY OF EARLY INDIAN DAYS.
CHIEF VANN HOUSE.
INDIAN TALE.
WILLIAM WHITE AND DANIEL BOONE.
A LEGEND OF LOVER'S LEAP, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
INDIAN MOUND, EARLY COUNTY, GEORGIA.
STORIETTE OF STATES DERIVED FROM INDIAN NAMES.
SEQUOIA, INVENTOR OF THE CHEROKEE ALPHABET.
THE BOY AND HIS ARROW.
INDIAN SPRING, GEORGIA. Romantic Discovery.
TRACING THE McINTOSH TRAIL.
GEORGIA SONG.
INDEX
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
More detail can be found at the end of the book.
Revolutionary Reader
Reminiscences and Indian Legends
COMPILED BY
SOPHIE LEE FOSTER
State Regent
Daughters of the American Revolution of Georgia
ATLANTA, GA.:
BYRD PRINTING COMPANY
1913
COPYRIGHTED 1913
BY
SOPHIE LEE FOSTER
DEDICATION
As my work has been a labor of love, I therefore affection-
ately dedicate this book to the Daughters of the
American Revolution of Georgia.
September 4, 1913.
Mrs. Sheppard W. Foster,
Atlanta, Georgia.
My Dear Mrs. Foster:—To say that I am delighted with your Revolutionary Reader is to state the sheer truth in very mild terms. It is a marvel to me how you could gather together so many charmingly written articles, each of them illustrative of some dramatic phase of the great struggle for independence. There is much in this book of local interest to each section. There is literally nothing which does not carry with it an appeal of the most profound interest to the general reader, whether in Georgia or New England. You have ignored no part of the map. I congratulate you upon your wonderful success in the preparation of your Revolutionary Reader. It is marvelously rich in contents and broadly American in spirit.
September 8, 1913.
Mrs. S. W. Foster,
711 Peachtree Street.
I like very much your plan of a Revolutionary reader. I hope it will be adopted by the school boards of the various states as a supplementary reader so that it may have a wide circulation.
Joseph T. Derry.
