ᎤᏕᏘᏴᏌᏗᏒ ᏯᏂᎷᎬᎾ ᎠᏂᏲᏍᎩ, ᎠᏂRidge ᎤᎾᏓᏓᏍᎬ ᎤᎾᎴᏅᎮ ᏓᏂᎯᏯᏍᎬ ᏧᎾᏁᏍᎨᏛ ᏗᏍᏙᏍᏗ, ᏗᎦᏐᏍᏙᏗ ᏥᏳ, ᏚᎾᏓᎾᏅ ᏃᎴ ᏗᏦᎣᏍᏙᏗ, ᏭᏕᎵᎬ ᎢᏣ ᎠᏁᎨ, ᎦᏲᏟ ᏚᎾᏘᏅᏎ ᎠᏂᎱᏣ ᏚᏂᎾᏌᎥ, ᏭᏅᎬᏛ ᎣᎭᏂ ᎤᏁᏅᏍᏗ.
In the year before the Army arrived, the members of the Ridge bunch began leaving the plantations they had built, the mills and ferries and stores and printing presses, and pulled out to the West, taking a few of their house slaves with them but leaving most to follow later.