Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-04-27
LOVE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

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the eminent influence of moth
er's heart.
A mothers heart in those days
were run in the antique mold. A
Connecticut matron sent forth her
sons to battle, the youngest but four
teen years of age. Presently he re-
turned, as he could find no musket.
Go back my son /! cried the Ameri-
can mother; go into battle and take
a gun from the enemy 'Alica,' said
Mrs. Haynes, of North Carolina, as
she equipped her son, a mere boy, for
the battle of Rock Mount-'Alick,
now fight like man. Don't be q
coward =
Just after the bloody tight at Hang
ing Rock, the venerable Mrs. CASTOR
was told that three of her sons were
dead on the field i grieved for
their loss she calmly replied, 'but
they could not have died for a better
cause Her grandsons were about
her knees, and she would not shed
tear. The battle of Kings Mountain
caused CORVALLIS to retreat in fear
toward Camden. On the march he
stopped night on Wilson's planta-
ton, near Steel Greek. The Earl
and the brutal Tarleton entered the
house and, finding Mrs. Wilson
alone, asked for her family. Illus.
band and suns were with Sumter.
CORVALLIS endeayored, by brilliant
promises, to win the good woman's
influence for the King. He told her
he had just captured her husband and
oldest son (Which was too true), and
that if she would bring her family to
the royal service her loved ones
should be liberated, and every man
promoted to rank and power. Sir
said this mother of mighty race, i
have seven sons now bearing arms !;
my seventh son, who is only fifteen
years of age, | yesterday sent to join
his brothers in Sumters army. Now,
sir, sooner than see one of my family
turn back from the glorious work, |
would take these boys = and she
pointed to three or four little sons =
and enlist with them myself under
Sumter's banner. and show my hus-
band and sons how to fight, and, if
necessary, to die for their country !!
: Bring him in said another, as her
only son was brought dead from the
battlefield to her door. The shatter-
ed form was laid before her. i see
no wound and she looked steadily
into the noble still FACET see only a
glorious soul
John McClare, the noblest of sons
and of soldiers, fell at Hanging
Rock Borne to his mothers house,
the man would have buried him as he
was, for the patriots were fleeing in
every direction. No. said the daunt-
less woman, standing at the corpse j;
bury him decently ; for the servants
Of Satan are bound, like their master,
and can go only the length of their
chain
Such women make noble daugh
ters, as well az sons, and we find the
men of the Revolution mated with
equal souls. When Burgoyne ad
vanced upon Saratoga, the whole
population fed from his line Of march.
But the wife of Gen. Schuyler, accom-
panied by only one servant, set out in
carriage for her husbands mansion
at Saratoga, determined to save some
valuable things before the British
could arrive. Known and beloved
THROUGH all that country, the terrified
people focked around her carriage,
chung to the wheels and the horses,
and besought her to turn back. She
would not listen They told her the
story Of Jane McCrea. Drive on,
SAID she to her servant the Generals
uife mast not be AFRAID Caesars
wife must be above suspicion.
Go 7 cried Carolina wife, as her
husband stood in the doorway load
ing his musket, while the boom of
Corvallis cannon came over the
hills from Guilford i would rather
you should die upon the field than be
in my arms at time like this.
The loving, wifeIy devotion of such
women as these was an incalculable
element in the final success of the
American armies. When the British
were daily expected at New York,
and the Connecticut and Jersey milit-
iamen mere hesitating to leave their
ricn crops to spoil, and their families
TO consequent suffering, the wives OF
these farmers urged them to the de-
Tense, and carried on the whole work
| in the field with their own hands. In
the summer Of 1880, when every able
bodied man was needed 20 defend the
! Caroliuas against the inroads of Corn
wallis, eleven young women at Fish
lug Greek, every one OF whom had a
lover aud brother bearing arms,
formed a reaping association, and
gathered not only their own crops,
but those of every plantation in the
district whose master was fighting
for their country. Just after the bat
tie of Kings Mountain, William
White rode up to his farm, fresh from
the bloody fray and, seeing his wife
aud sisters attempting to sow wheat
in the field, stopped just long enough
! to show them the cost of the hand,
and darted eff again to join the pat
riot army.
The famous Tory, Col. Ferguson
dressed in new and dashing uniform
which CORVALLIS had given him, rode
up to his brothers house, and was
endeayoring to win him to the roya
cause. See how the noble Earl ha'
treated me- he urged 'look at m,
rank and my clothes. It may be
shall be made Lord, and how shall
| feel then to hear it said my brothel
) was rebel p His last word brough
7 the sturdy young wife to the door
/. 4 am a rebel' she cried IN.
brothers are all rebels, and the litti'
) dog Trip is rebel, too | woul'
: rather see you with a sheep on you
back than tricked out in all lhos
find clothes Rebel AMI he free, tina
7 is nv motto = Then she turned t,
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