Category: Historical Novels
There was a time in the history of our country when the stoutest hearts were filled with despair. The defeat of General Gates, followed by the overrunning of the Carolinas, the treachery of Benedict Arnold, and the general bad condition of our army, did not, certainly, tend to...
A fortunate chance seemed about to do for Preston, that which he had been deliberating about, and hesitating whether or no he should have it done. John Vale, having crossed the...
9. CHAPTER IX.Dark night settled around the dwelling of the widow Vale. The clouds of an approaching storm obscured the moon, Only a chance ray would beam out, like a beautiful face from behi...
3. CHAPTER III.It was about one o’clock in the afternoon, when fifty British soldiers, under the guidance of Timothy Turner, set out for the rendezvous of the Whig partisans, going with the av...
14. CHAPTER XIV.When Ernshaw returned from the pursuit of Preston and the tory, he found several of the men standing over John Vale, anxiously feeling his breast to see if the breath of life wa...
6. CHAPTER VI.Two weeks have elapsed since the time when Nat Ernshaw first formally enrolled the names of the volunteers, who wished to fight under the continental banner. During that two wee...
12. CHAPTER XII.Young Simon Hunt by this time, must be admitted, ought to have some knowledge of the roads leading from the outskirts of Charleston to Cedar Swamp and its environs, inasmuch as...
10. CHAPTER X.Young Vale was a man of strong will. Sorrow and rage at his sister’s disappearance did not blind his reason. Knowing that he must take care of his own safety, if he would do aug...
11. CHAPTER XI.Two days have passed since Catherine was made a prisoner. She has seen no one but the old negress. Her room was only lighted by a lamp, every ray of the sun having been carefull...
1. CHAPTER I.There was a time in the history of our country when the stoutest hearts were filled with despair. The defeat of General Gates, followed by the overrunning of the Carolinas, the...
2. CHAPTER II.No man is so base as he who deliberately takes up arms against his own country. Such a one is fit for any deed, however mean, cowardly, or wicked. Unfortunately, traitors have b...
4. CHAPTER IV.“So, he is nothing but one of these cursed rebels, after all. If _that_ is the case, my chances are not so desperate as you seem to think. If Captain Morgan succeeded in doing h...
7. CHAPTER VII.Ben Graham was by no means a man of small importance, as one might suppose from the manner in which he was spoken of in the letter which Nat Ernshaw had received. On the contrar...
5. CHAPTER V.Nat Ernshaw had not a very definite idea of what was to be done when he organized his brigade. His intention was patriotic,--to assist his country in retaining her independence,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Turner, anxious to get matters in train for securing the reward promised him by Captain Preston, did not suffer grass to grow under the feet of his horse while he journeyed to C...