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AUNT NANCY HART.
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There lived in Georgia, during the Revolutionary struggle, the most remarkable1 woman in some respects that the country has produced. To find her match, we shall have to go to the fables3 that are told about the Amazons. The Liberty Boys called her Aunt Nancy Hart. The Indians, struck by her wonderful feats4 in behalf of her country, called her "The War Woman;" and there is a creek5 in Elbert County, where she lived, that was named by the Indians "War Woman's Creek."
There are other heroines to whom history has paid more attention, and whose deeds have been celebrated6 in song and story; but not one of them was more devoted7 to the high cause of freedom, or more courageous8, or depended less on aid from others, than Aunt Nancy Hart. In this last respect, the War Woman of Georgia stands alone in history, just as she stood alone when the Tories were waging a war of extermination10, sparing neither women nor children, in the region in which she lived. Invention and fable2 have kindly11 come to the aid of the most famous of the world's heroines, but neither fable nor invention has touched the character or the deeds of this heroine of the Revolution. She stands out on the pages of history rough, uncouth12, hot-tempered, unmanageable, uneducated, impolite, ugly, and sharp-tongued; but, as her friends said of her, "What a honey of a
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