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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], Where tall soldiers come from. (search)
[for the Richmond Dispatch.]Old Kentucky. Bristol, July 18, 1861.
Mr. Dispatch:--I was to-day looking over the history of Kentucky, and read with feelings of great emotion the defence of Boonsborough by Daniel Boone and his brave followers, August, 1778. I must quote one page of it to refresh your memory also, and should the eye of any Kentuckian rest on this page, let him pause and remember that now a moment has arrived in his history as momentous as the one now alluded to: "It was on picked up, after their departure, one hundred and twenty-five pounds of their bullets. "
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It was amid such scenes as this that the foundation of the State of Kentucky was laid, by a mere handful of high-spirited men. Mr. Dispatch, I cannot believe that the good old stock is extinct.
No. sir; the spirit of Daniel Boone is yet abroad in the land; his brave acts (though his bones sleep in her dust,) yet speak in thunder tones to Kentucky's sons, "Down with the oppressor