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Tuesday, the 14th of May
Halted, the Men ordered to keep in Caht, as in the preceeding No alarm
Wednesday, the 15th of May
About 6 O’Clock in the Evening, the Governor received a Letter froents which he laid before the Council of War, wherein it was deterainst the Rebels early the next Morning, that the Governor should send the them Terms, and in Case of Refusal, should attack theht under Arms No alarm, tho’ the Rebels lay within five Miles of the Cah, May 15
"Last night I fell asleep early, and woke up before dawn inside a gray cloud All day, I’ve felt like I alking inside a mist; people talk to me and I don’t hear them; I can see their o away The air is hot ands pans
I’ve tried all day to reray, and a feeling of fear I’ve never been near a battle, but I have the feeling that what I’ of is cannon smoke"
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COUNCIL OF WAR
JAMIE CAME BACK from the Council of War, well after suppertieneral response was approval, if not outright enthusias out his long arer we stay, we are growing reehtened noticeably at the prospect of action in the ; men settled down to talk around the fires, the rays of the setting sun glinting off tin cups and the polished barrels of the muskets laid carefully by their feet
Ja questions and ad reassurances, then came to join me at our smaller fire I looked at him narrowly; in spite of the stress of the immediate situation, there was a sense of suppressed satisfaction about him that at once excitedhie chunk of bread and a bowl of stew
He didn’t bother denying that he’d been doing soh after the Council, to ask him about Stephen Bonnet" He ripped off a chunk of bread with his teeth and sed it with the"Christ, I’h the brambles on ing about in the brambles" Cornell was one of the Governor’s Royal Council, a stout and wealthy rossly unsuited by position, build, and teh brah the stew, took another enormous bite, then waved a hand, momentarily speechless I handed him a cup of cider, which he used to wash down the mess
"We were searchin’ out the Rebel lines," he explained, the obstruction cleared "They’re no far off, ken Though ‘lines’ is giving the up ht in France, and we took a village where a gang o’ wine-s and all of theround to arrest them This lot’s little better, froh," he added, to be fair, and shoved the rest of his bread into his htly the worse for drink at the moment, but that was so usual a condition as not to call for co on the important aspect of the conversation
"So you’ve found out soulped
"Cornell’s not met him, but he’s heard talk It seems he works his way up and down the Outer Banks for a bit, and then disappears for three or fourin the taverns in Edenton or Roanoke, gold pieces spilling frooods fro them" Three or four land and back "Contraband, I suppose?"
Jas the stuff ashore?" He wiped the back of a hand across hisOr so rumor says"
"What--you don’t mean Phillip Wylie is in cahoots with him?" I was shocked--and rather distressed--to hear this, but Jamie shook his head
"As to that, I couldna say But the Landing adjoins Phillip Wylie’s plantation, to be sure And the wee shite i’ Bonnet the night he came to River Run, no matter what he may have said about it, later," he added He flapped a hand, dis Phillip Wylie for the ain; he’s been gone, this past h, for the ; there’s enough to worry about without that"
He spoke without irony, glancing round at the encaht failed, the fires began to glow through the di the banks of Great Alamance
"Hermon Husband is here," he said
I looked up fro out
"Did you speak to hio near He’s with the Regulators, aye? I was on a wee hill, lookin’ down across the streareat mass of men, but I couldna mistake his dress"
"What will he do?" I handed hiht" I was inclined to view Husband’s presence as a hopeful sign Herulators had to a real leader; they would listen to hi troubled