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. 1896 Excerpt: ...Regulators and offered his sword to the leaders. "Your ways of gaining redress are oftentimes unwise, but you are fighting for the right," he said simply; and they received him with joy, knowing the metal whereof he was made. It was not long ere Tryon, at the head of his trained regulars, appeared before the camp and issued his arrogant proclamation, that "the insurgents" must lay down their arms within the hour and submit their leaders for punishment, or else they must fight. Undisciplined and poorly equipped as they were, they chose the latter; and thus, under the soft May sunlight, was fought the battle of Alamance, where America made her first stand against foreign oppression. Had the result been a victory for the Regulators, a long array of names had been added to the country's list of patriots, and Alamance and not Lexington would have opened the roll-call of the Revolution. For two hours the contest raged, and ever in the thickest of the fight was Philip Darrow, bearing, as it seemed, a charmed life; cheering on the men with word and example. But when the hurricane of shot and shell had passed, and the war ravens gathered their dead, they found him with his face to the sky, the peace of a welcome death in the calm lines about his mouth. In Tryon's army were those who had known him always, men who had loved him for his courage and his courtesy; and, remembering the old ties of friendship, they carried him back to New Berne to rest by his mother in the moss-hung burying ground. There was grief throughout the community; and sweet Majory Burgwyn, with her turquoise eyes all clouded with tears, laid her last tribute of flowers upon a grave. hind. The quail was somewhat slower, but when he did awake he lost little time in rubbing his ey...