Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-08-28
EDGEFIELD, S. C,AUGUsT %, 1851.

euiuSliIlCeS, WAS W lllcuT lOO SEcitt q lesPoii
sibility. After a hurried consultation, it wa
decided to let her proceed under cover of tn,
darkness, but not alone. A fresh horse was
provided, and soon after the news that Mini
the tory had passed on toward the camp O.
Lord Rawdon was received, Emily, accompa
MED by trusty guide and protector, was
gnlloping swiftly in direction opposite tc
that in which lay the British camp. A few
miles brought her to road that struck of
towards the point on the Watcree which she
was desirous to reach in more southerly
direction, and which would take her at wide
angle from the point she most wished to avoid
| Of this road she had not herself known; but
her guide, being familiar with the country
was able to conduct her by the shorter and
safer route.
All night the girl and her companion rode
on, at a pace as rapid as the nature of the
road and the darkness rendered safe, and at
daylight they were far away from the neigh
borhood of the enemy's camp. As the sun
came up from the east, the guide of Emily,
according to instructions, after minutely de-
scribing to her the course she was to take,
left her to pursue the remainder of her jour
ney alone. Without stopping to refresh either
herself or her tired horse, the young heroine
pressed forward, though the heat grew more
and more intense every hour, as the sun
swept up toward the zenith. Faint, weary,
and almost sick from fatigue, hunger and en-
citement, she was urging on the jaded animal
she rode, when, about three o'clock in the
afternoon, in emerging from dense wood,
she came suddenly on file of soldiers whose
uniform she knew too we'll to leave doubt
of their being friends.
"Wherc will find Gen. SUMTER" was her
first, eager enquiry.
"He is encampcd mile from here"
aTake me to him, quickly" she said, 81
have message from General Greene"
The excitement by which Emily had been
sustained on her long and perilous journey
now subsded, and ere she reached the pres
ence of the American General, she was so
weak that she had to be supported on the,
horse she rode: When brought into the.
presence Of Sumter, she rallied, and, sus-
tained by n newly-awakening enthusiasm,
J,1yorod Jor ,orbo1 m ooe,,ro IN fbo oeton
ished officer. who, acting in accordance with
the intelligence received, was on the march
within an hour, to reach the point of juno
tion with Gen. Greene, which that comman-
der had indicated in his despatch.
Two weeks elapsed before Emily got safe-
ly back to her father, who was Informed an
hour or two after her departure of what she
had done. OF his anxiety during her abb
scncc we need not speak; nor of the love
and pride that almost stilcd him as he claspcd
her to his heart on her return.
Of the subsequent history of Miss Emily
Geigcr, we know little or nothing She was
married to 4 South Carolina planter, some
years after the British troops were expelled
from the country she loved with so heroic an
affection, and more than a quarter of cen
fury has elapsed since she went down in
peace to the grave. Doubtless, her memory
is green in the hearts of her descendants, il
any survive; and green will it be, for ages,
we trust in the hearts of all who know what
it is to feel the emotions of geuine patriotism