 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 sivua
...defence of their native land. " Go my children," said she, " I spare not my youngest, my fair-haired boy, the comfort of my declining years. I devote you all...from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard^when a boy, an anecdote related by an old settler, somewhat to this effect : The white, or wild... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 sivua
...banner to plant upo mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bl< country from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently...when a boy, an anecdote related by an old settler, som to this effect : The white, or wild clover, is of indigenous growth, and abounded i banks of the... | |
 | Wills De Hass - 1851 - 438 sivua
...army. Three sons, however, were at home, whose ages were seventeen, fifteen and thirteen years. Wm. Lewis was confined to his room by sickness, but his...anecdote related by an old settler, somewhat to this efiect : — The white, or wild clover, is of indigenous growth, and abounded on the banks of the rivers,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 sivua
...saying of Washington is more frequently quoted upon patriotic occasions in Virginia, than this : " Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains...bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." The incident, however, which led to this remark, is not so generally known. It is thus related in Howe's... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - 1858 - 364 sivua
...incident was related to General Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, f Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains...our bleeding country from the dust and set her free ! ' " HOWE'S History of Virginia. WILLIAM LEWIS, mentioned in the above extract, owned a princely estate... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1867 - 282 sivua
...province, he enthusiastically exclaimed : " Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains of West Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will...bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." APPENDIX. The following Correspondence contains a brief but satisfactory account of the leading incidents... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1870 - 322 sivua
...their hardy descendants. Their detestation of civil tyranny descended to them from the Covhaired boy, the comfort of my declining years. I devote you all...bleeding country from the dust and set her free.' " enanters of Scotland ; and on the dispute between the Colonists and the mother country, they were... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1870 - 310 sivua
...their hardy descendants. Their detestation of civil tyranny descended to them from the CoVhaired boy, the comfort of my declining years. I devote you all...bleeding country from the dust and set her free.' " enanters of Scotland; and on the dispute between the Colonists and the mother country, they were... | |
 | 1873 - 626 sivua
...defence of their native land." When her patriotic and noble words to her sons were recited to Washington, he enthusiastically exclaimed: "Leave me but a banner...bleeding country from the dust and set her free." Col. William Lewis lived until his old age, upon the old homestead on Lewis's creek in Augusta county,... | |
 | Virgil Anson Lewis - 1887 - 766 sivua
...frontier to induce her sons to go to battle, he was heard to exclaim, " Leave me but a banner to place on the mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around...our bleeding country from the dust and set her free ! " Greenbriar county was formed in 1777, the gloomiest for the American cause of all the years of... | |
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Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust, and set her free. 
