Record #:

14073

Author(s):

Moore, Louis T.

Abstract:

Mary Slocumb ran to her husband in battle after believing she dreamed he cried out for her. At the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge during the Revolutionary War, Colonel Slocumb was engaged with British troops. His wife Mary believed she heard him call to her while she slept and decided to make a daring run to Moore's Creek from Goldsboro a sixty mile journey. Most of the article is a reprint of Mary Slocumb's own description of events, ending with the author mentioning the internment of Colonel Slocumb and his wife at Moore's Creek National Park.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 16 Issue 1, June 1948, p41-42, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783