Identifier: narrativeofnines1899davi (find matches)
Title: NARRATIVE OF THE NINES - 1899
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Davidson College, Davidson North Carolina
Publisher: Davidson College
Contributing Library: Davidson College, E.H. Little Library
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e from the host requesting that picked men from thearmy be sent forth to engage in battle with picked menfrom other coUeg-es to decide who will overcome in thestruggle over the pig-skin. Silence reigned supreme(Wooly Puss, to the consternation of those present,showed signs of utterance.) The Satrap having taken hisseat, Henry Louis, a prominent one of the Stratagoi aroseand counselled that chosen men, selected from the variouscompanies of the host and equipped as hoplites be allowedto contest with the barbarians. After much deliberationin which all the Stratagoi spoke fervently, it was agreed todispatch a company of eleven. Bill Joe was made Archonover these and instructed to lead them forth to battle. Our men having learned that the enemy would be inCharlotte on the 5th of November, made preparation tomeet them, and if the winds be propitious, to overcomethem before helios set. Bill Joe having armed his men 30 CD np > 1.55 o mco, o 2 =: CO J^ m> 33 Tl or D!- - > CO ■ • 2
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with helmets of leather and covered their faces over withindia-rubber brought from across the great sea, this beingbound on with thongs of oxhide; also having fastenedgreaves of canvas supported by lightwood around their legsand placed sandals on their feet with spikes in them toprevent slipping, the sun having risen high in the heavens,set out with his forces for the city, Charlotte. Hemarches through Huntersville, a ten minutes journey, twoparasangs to the city Croft. Here is a railroad one-twentieth of a plethra as to width, made of steel bars andcrossties. Mounting this he goes a fifteen-minute journey, threeparasangs through Derita to the city, Charlotte—a popu-lous city, prosperous and large. Here food and water beingfound in abundance, for there was easy access to the market-place, the army went into camp. The men having eaten of the fruit of the land, for theywere weary from their march and there was m.uch provis-ion in the city, they were led forth into the plain in LattaPa

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