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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
t infantry, continuing their march, with the British at their heels, crossed the Yadkin at the Trading ford, Greene Ms. partly on flats and partly by fording, during the latter part of the time in a heavy rain. After the Americans were safe beyond the river and Morgan had secured all water craft on its south side, it rose too high to be forded. To the Americans it seemed that Providence was their ally. Cornwallis was forced to lose two days in ascending the Yadkin to the so-called Shallow ford, where he 7. 9. crossed on the seventh. On the night of the ninth he encamped near the Moravian settlement of Salem, where, upon the very border of the wilderness, gentle and humble and hospitable emigrants, bound by their faith never to take up arms, had chosen their abodes, and for their sole defence had raised the symbol of the triumphant Lamb. Among them equality reigned. No one, then or thereafter, was held in bondage. There were no poor, and none marked from others by their app