Colonel Edward Buncombe, Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment: His Life, Military Career, and Death While a Wounded Prisoner in Philadelphia...
- ISBN-10
- 1331302862
- ISBN-13
- 9781331302865
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 28
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-13
- Author
- Marshall Delancey Haywood
Description
Excerpt from Colonel Edward Buncombe, Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment: His Life, Military Career, and Death While a Wounded Prisoner in Philadelphia During the War of the Revolution; Address Delivered Before the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at Its Meeting Held in Hillsborough, July 4, 1901 MR. President and Gentlemen of the Society: It is no small privilege which the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati enjoys when it meets in this ancient Revolutionary capital, for here our organization was first brought into being. The year of grace 1783, which is the date of its birth, was one of mingled joy and depression to the people of America. The war, it is true, had been fought to a successful close; and, by a treaty wherein they were separately specified. King George had acknowledged the thirteen colonies to be "free, sovereign, and independent States." But how changed was the order of things! The desolation following in the wake of war was scarcely less terrible than war itself, and no State had made greater sacrifices for the cause of liberty than North Carolina. Under daring partisan leaders at home, under Washington in the north, and Greene in the south, her sons had in countless fights lengthened the list of killed and wounded, while those who were spared came home to prove that - "Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war." Yet many, so many, there were of the brave defenders of America who did not return, and their mortal remains still rest on and about the old battlefields made memorable by their valor. To this class belonged the good and gallant officer of whom I shall speak today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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