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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
The women of the Revolution.
The following extract from Bottas' History of the American Revolution, volume second, will be read with interest now:
"Amidst the general desolation, the women of Carolina exhibited an example of more than masculine fortitude.
They displayed so ardent, so rare a love of country, that scarcely could there be found in ancient or modern history an instance more worthy to excite surprise and admiration.
Far from being offended at the name of rebel ladies, t lence, many passed suddenly from the most delicate and the most elegant style of living to the rudest triumph over their resolution and cheerfulness, their example was a support to their companions in misfortune.
To this heroism of the women of Carolina, it is principally to be imputed that the love, and even the name of liberty, were not totally extinguished in the Southern provinces.
The English hence began to be sensible that their triumph was still far from secure.
For, in every affair of