You believe this because it is written in history.
I have heard politicians tell it.

I have heard it told from the sacred desk.

It is true; no one doubts it.
Now, were I to tell something that happened in this nineteenth century exactly similar, you would hardly believe it.

But whether you believe it or not, it is for you to say.

At a little village called Hampshire Crossing, our regiment was ordered to go to a little stream called St.John's Run, to relieve the 14th Georgia Regiment and the 3rd Arkansas.