Life and times of GenSamDale, the Mississippi partisan . out, and thathe was scouting for them. Father, evereager for a fight, joined this company, andwe trudged on to Clinch Mountain. Insteadof the bridal party, the well-sjDread table,the ringing laughter, and the sounding feetof buxom dancers, we found a pile of ashesand six or seven ghastly corpses, tomahawk-ed and scalped. Poor Hardy MClure wasdead; several others lay around. Onedaughter was still breathing, but soon ex-pired. Mrs. MClure, her infant, and threeother children, including Sally, the intendedbride, had been carried off by the
Life and times of GenSamDale, the Mississippi partisan . out, and thathe was scouting for them. Father, evereager for a fight, joined this company, andwe trudged on to Clinch Mountain. Insteadof the bridal party, the well-sjDread table,the ringing laughter, and the sounding feetof buxom dancers, we found a pile of ashesand six or seven ghastly corpses, tomahawk-ed and scalped. Poor Hardy MClure wasdead; several others lay around. Onedaughter was still breathing, but soon ex-pired. Mrs. MClure, her infant, and threeother children, including Sally, the intendedbride, had been carried off by the soon tore the poor infant from itsmothers arms, and killed and scalped it,that she might travel faster. While theywere scalping this child, Peggy MClure,a girl twelve years old, perceived a sink-hole immediately at her feet, and droppedsilently into it. It communicated with aravine, down which she ran, and broughtthe news into the settlements. The Indianswere too apprehensive of pursuit to searchfor her. The same night, Sally, who had *S:.. THE W131>T>rNG BY THE GEAVE. GENERAL SAMUEL DALE. 23 been tied and forced to lie down betweentwo warriors, contrived to loosen her tliongsand make her escape. She struck for thecane-brake, then for the river, and, to concealher trail, resolved to descend it. It wasdeep wading, and the current so rapid shehad to fill her petticoat with gravel to steadyherself She soon, however, recovered con-fidence, returned to shore, and finally reach-ed the still smoking homestead about darknext evening. A fcAV neighbors, well armed,had just buried the dead. Kincaid wasamong them. The last jDrayer had beensaid when the orphan girl stood before them,and was soon in the arms of her lover. He-solved to leave no more to chance, at hisentreaty and by the advice of all, the weep-ing girl gave her consent, and by the graveof the household and near the ruined dwell-ing they were immediately married. In the mean time Captain Barnett pur-sued the
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