Chapter 66:
The battle of Fort Moultrie.The twenty eighth of June, 1776.
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the oleander in their gorgeous masses of flowers, and the peace of Charleston was still undisturbed except by gathering rumors, that the English fleet and transports destined for its attack had arrived in Cape Fear River.
Its citizens, taking courage from the efficiency and wisdom with which the independent government of the colony was administered, toiled continually in the trenches, and bands of negroes from the neighboring plantations were put upon the works.
The bloom of the magnolia was yellowing in the hot sky of early summer, when on the first day of June expresses from Christ Church parish brought news to the president, that a fleet of forty or fifty sail lay anchored about twenty miles to the north of Charleston bar.
Prompt and fearless in action, Rutledge ordered the alarm to be fired, and while the townsmen were.
looking out for horses, carriages, or boats to remove
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