Sarah Dillard's Ride: A Story of the Carolinas in 1780

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A Story of the Carolinas in 1780.
By JAMES OTIS.
With Six Page Illustrations by J. Watson Davis.
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 52-58 Duane Street, New York.
Copyright, 1898, by A. L. Burt.
Copyright, 1899, by A. L. Burt.
SARAH DILLARD'S RIDE. By James Otis.
They were men admirably fitted by their daily pursuits for the privations they were called upon to endure. They had neither tents, baggage, bread, nor salt, and no commissary department to furnish regular supplies. Potatoes, pumpkins, roasted corn, and occasionally a bit of venison supplied by their own rifles, composed their daily food. Such were the men who were gathering among the mountains and valleys of the Upper Carolinas to beat back the invaders. — Lossing's Field-Book of the Revolution.