The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-08
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 ! DAUGHTERS OF THE Il | AMERICAN REVOLUTION l
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 IN Historical Department. ! RhhhAnAAnnnAnS forded a ready index to ms character.
 It was evident he was man to cohnde | i'm"
 The old soldier was drawn out to relate | some stories of the war. He told how he got away from Charleston after the sur
 render, and how he took nve Scoicnmeh | prisoners, and these two famous pass | ages are faithfully preserved in the mar
 "it was first published in 1885. Horse Shoe Robinson was then very oin man; | He had removed to Alabama and lived, l | am told near Tuscaloosa. commits stoned a friend to send him copy of the book. The report brought me was that
 the old man had listened very attentively | to the reading of 1t and took great in-
 " What do you say to all this?' was | the question addressed to him, after the | reading was finished. His reply is a voucher. which I desire to preserve: Tt | is all true and Hght--in its right place excepting about them women, which I | disremember. ThaN thought be true. too;
 but my memory is treacherous-l disre- In conclusion we copy from the His | torical Department of The Atlanta Con- stitution valuable sketch. sent by Mrs; l | much interested in the history of this
 Extract from "F1ag of the Union," pub 1 iished at Tuscaloosa, date January H. lssS: Horse Shoe Robinson-Who has not read l Kennedys delightful novel of this name. and who that has read 1t would not give | an half days ride to see the venerable
 living Hero of this Tale of the Tory l Ascendency," the immortal Horse Shoe l himself-the extermination of Jim Cur
 "" an Hugh Habershaw? The vencr-
 able Patriot bearing the familiar soubri- | quet, and whose name MT. Kennedy has | made as familiar .n the mouths of Amer ican youths as household words, was wis ited by us in company with several | friends one day last week. We found the | old Gentleman on his Plantation about, F miles from this city. as comfortably sit-
 uated with respect to this worlds goods as any one could desire to have him. It
 was gratifying to us to see him In his old i age after having served through the whole war of Independence thus seated | under his own vine and fig tree, with his | children around him and with the Partner tof his early tolls and trials still con- tinued to him enjoying in peace and safe gle, in the most gloomy and Responding | hour of which he was found as ready. | as earnest, as zealous, for the cause Of
 liberty as when victory perched upon her | standard. and the stars of the Tory as- tendency" was for while dimmed. by l defeat-and in which he continued with | unshaken Faith and constancy until it | sank below the Horison never again to. | rise. The old gentleman gave us a partial
 history of his Revolutionary adventures. l containing many interesting facts re- | specting the domination of the Tory party l in the South during the times of the Rev | olution, which Mir. Kennedy has not re- | corded in his Book. But it will chiefly in- terest our readers, or that portion of l them at least to whom the history of the old heroes achievements as recorded by | ia Q | that the principle incidents therein por-
 trayed are strictly true.
 That his escape from Charleston after | the cauture of that City. his being en- | trusted with a letter to Butler, the scene | at Wat Adams, the capture of Butler at Gundal's Ford, his subsequent escape and | recapture. the death of John Ramsey, and
 the detection of the party by reason Of | the salute fired over his grave, his cap- tureing of the four men under the com | mand of the younger St. Germyn his attack ufbn Ines camp. and the death of
 Hugh Habershaw by his own hand and
 finally the death of Jim Curry, are all | narrated pretty much as they occurred, | in the old veterans own language: There
 is a heap of truth in it, though the
 writer has nightly furnished it up That
 the names of Butler, Mildred Linsay.
 Mary Musgrove, John Ramsay, Hugh
 Habershaw, Jim Curry and In fact all
 most every other used in the Book, with ! the exception of his own. are real and | not fictitious. His own name. he in- 1 formed us, is James; and that he did not ! go by the familiar appellation by which | he ds now so widely known until after the war, when he acquired it from the | form of his Plantation in the Horse Shoe | Bend of the fair forest creek which was bestowed upon him by the Legislature of South Carolina in consequence Of the ser vices he had rendered during the war
 this estate, we understood him to say, he still owned.
 He was Borne, he says. in 1759 in Vir- ginia, and entered the army in his sew l enteenth year. Before the close of war, | he says he commanded a troop of horse, | so that his military title is that of Cap l tain Horseshoe. although in infirm health bears evident marks of having been
 man of great personal strength and ac- tivity. He is now afflicted with trou- | besome cough. which in the natural course of events must in few years wear out hls aged frame Yet. notwithstand-
 ing his infirmities and general debility: his eye still sparkles with the ire ot youth as he recounts the stirring ana
 thrilling incidents of the war. and that sly quiet humor so well described by Remedy may still be seen playing around his mouth as one calls to his recollccuons any of the pranks he was wont to play
 upon any of the tory vagrants, as he very properly styles them. The old Gen tleman received us with warm cordiality and hospitality: and after partaklng or the Counties of his boad and spending 9 night under his hosptable roof we took ledNo Ol nlEl years of the peaceful enjoyment of that liberty which he fought so long and so brayeIy to achieve. It will not be unin- teresting. we hope, to remark that the old heroe still considers himself sol dier, though the nature of his warfare IS changed: he is now jealous promoter ol the Redeemer's cause as he once was in securing the independence of his coun- | try.
 Since the above was in type we have | heard of the death of the aged partner | of this venerable patriot. An obituary | notice will be found in another column.
 Truly in friendship.
 Thomas P. Clinton.