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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER IX
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They had marched well and fought valiantly, and they had gained a great victory; all the little stockaded forts, all the rough log-cabins on the scattered clearings, were jubilant over the triumph.

From that moment their three leaders were men of renown.

The legislatures of their respective states thanked them publicly and voted them swords for their services.

Campbell, next year, went down to join Greene's army, did gallant work at Guilford Courthouse, and then died of camp-fever.

Sevier and Shelby had long lives before them.


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