Young People's History of North Carolina (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...army were glad to serve against the militia in their own counties. In January, 1781, while Cornwallis was following Morgan, Major James H. Craig of the British army, with four hundred and fifty men, took possession of Wilmington. He aroused the Highland Scotch and other Tories from Wilmington to Alamance County. Although but a major, Craig appointed Tory colonels, majors, and captains as though he were a king. The counties between the Haw and the Yadkin rivers were soon in a state of civil war. Bands of lawless Tories, and at times equally lawless Whigs, imprisoned, burned, shot, and hanged. Vile men of both parties took advantage of the civil war and robbed and burned defenceless homes for their own profit. 329. Piney Bottom massacre.--An example of the horrors of this civil war is found in the Piney Bottom massacre. Colonel Thomas Wade of Anson County was among those Who fled from the wrath of the Tories. He and many others found shelter among the Whigs on the Neuse River. After Cornwallis left the State, Colonel Wade and a party of friends started home in wagons. They camped for a night at Piney Bottom on the Cape Fear. While they were asleep, a band of Tories, who had followed them, slew five or six of their party. Colonel Wade and his friends, on reaching home, collected a party of horsemen. They then returned, hunted down, and slew nearly all of the Tories who had taken part in the attack. 330. David Fanning and his " Outliers."--Chief among the Tory leaders of the worst class was a young man named David Fanning of Chatham County. Fanning was bold, ready, vicious, heartless. In his angry moods, no crime was too black for him: no pity stayed his hand. Women as well as men fell before him. In his wild raids, he rode a fleet-footed bay mare cal...