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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
ring with impunity. The Cherokees had been encouraged during the summer to join insurgent loyalists in ravaging the American settlements west of the mountains as far as Chiswell's lead mines. Against this danger, Jefferson organized, in the south-western counties of the state of which he was the governor, a regiment of four hundred backwoodsmen under the command of Colonel William Campbell, brother-in-law of Patrick Henry; and in an interview with William Preston, the lieutenant of Washington county, as the southwest of Virginia was then called, he dwelt on the resources of the country, the spirit of congress, and the character of the people; and for himself and for his state would admit no doubt that, in spite of all disasters, a continued vigorous resistance would bring the war to a happy issue. At Waxhaw, Cornwallis halted for a few days, and, Chap. XVI.} 1780 Sept. 16. that he might eradicate the spirit of patriotism from South Carolina before he passed beyond its borders,