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  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 affectionately
  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.

  Sincerely your friend,
  (Signed) LUCIAN LAMAR KNIGHT.

  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.

  Yours sincerely,
  JOSEPH T. DERRY.




  CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE

  America                                                             11

  Washington's Name                                                   12

  Washington's Inauguration                                           13

  Important Characters of the Revolutionary Period in American
  History                                                             14

  Battle of Alamance                                                  20

  Battle of Lexington                                                 22

  Signers of Declaration                                              35

  Life at Valley Forge                                                37

  Old Williamsburg                                                    46

  Song of the Revolution                                              52

  A True Story of the Revolution                                      53

  Georgia Poem                                                        55

  Forts of Georgia                                                    56

  James Edward Oglethorpe                                             59

  The Condition of Georgia During the Revolution                      61

  Fort Rutledge of the Revolution                                     65

  The Efforts of LaFayette for the Cause of American
  Independence                                                        72

  James Jackson                                                       77

  Experiences of Joab Horne                                           79

  Historical Sketch of Margaret Katherine Barry                       81

  Art and Artists of the Revolution                                   84

  "Uncle Sam" Explained Again                                         87

  An Episode of the War of the Revolution                             88

  State Flowers                                                       93

  Georgia State History, Naming of the Counties                       95

  An Historic Tree                                                   100

  Independence Day                                                   101

  Kitty                                                              102

  Battle of Kettle Creek                                             108

  A Daring Exploit of Grace and Rachael Martin                       111

  A Revolutionary Puzzle                                             112

  South Carolina in the Revolution                                   112

  Lyman Hall                                                         118

  A Romance of Revolutionary Times                                   120

  Fort Motte, South Carolina                                         121

  Peter Strozier                                                     123

  Independence Day                                                   125

  Sarah Gilliam Williamson                                           127

  A Colonial Hiding Place                                            129

  A Hero of the Revolution                                           131

  John Paul Jones                                                    132

  The Real Georgia Cracker                                           135

  The Dying Soldier                                                  136

  When Benjamin Franklin Scored                                      139

  A Revolutionary Baptising                                          139