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Title: Proceedings at the unveiling of the battle monument in Spartanburg, S. C., in commemoration of the centennial of the battle of Cowpens
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Cowpens Centennial Committee
Subjects: Courtenay, William Ashmead, 1831-1908 Cowpens, Battle of, Cowpens, S.C., 1781 Cowpens Monument (Spartanburg, S.C.)
Publisher: (Charleston, S.C.) The Cowpens centennial committee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd pleasantmarch they reached the Cowpens about 3 oclock in theafternoon. Thus far the weary steps of the pilgrims hadIcept time only to the occasional tap of the drum, orbeen enlivened at intervals by the solitary bugle note; butnow, as if t.\\Q genius loci had fired all with a novel inspiration,the swelling strains of martial music burst suddenly on theear, and with brighter t-ye and firmer tread they mountedthe brow of the declivity at quickstep, and planting thecrimson flag of Cowpens Guilford, Hobkirks Hill and Eu-taw Springs on the san^ie spot where three-cj^uarters of acentury before it had first been flung to the breeze, theymade the silent forest ring with three times three heartycheers. There was little tune for giving vent to enthusiasm, how-ever, for much was to be accomplished ere the morrow, andeach man readily accepted and resolutely began his share ofthe work. The tents were soon pitched. A more sumptu-ous dinner than usual was heartily partaken of in honor of \) W I f
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the occasion, and the tasks of the afternoon being complet-ed, mirth and glee and uproarious merriment startled withtheir wild revelry the stillness of those ancient woods, whilemusic and the glare of blazing bonfires, and the fiery flightof brilliant rockets, lent an additional enchantment to thescene. But as the hours sped these, all in turn, yielded tothe usurpation of a more despotic power, and from thebrooding wings of night, stillness and darkness droppedstealthily down. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CELEBRATION. A small circle sat alone by the embers of a slowly dyingfire, and memory, busy with the past, called up the dim-remembered shapes and shifting scenes of the time longago. Overhead the drowsy folds of the national flagstirred lazily to the gentle night winds, in which the littlebanner, as if conscious of its native air, flapped incessantly.The plaintive note of the whip-poor-will broke at intervalsupon the dreary stillness, and in the deep gloom giant pines—the guardian watcher

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