Excerpt from Elsie at Viamede And Andrew Jackson was the commanding general? Remarked Walter in a tone between inquiry and assertion. Was he an American by birth, Brother Levis? Yes; his parents were from Ireland, but he was born on the border between North and South Carolina, in 1767; so that he was old enough to remember some of the occurrences of the Revolutionary War; one of them being him self carried to Camden, South Carolina, as a prisoner, and there nearly starved to death and brutally treated by a British officer; out with a sword because he refused to black his boots for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.