his decree, and directed Smith to be set at liberty! Whether the regard of this
glorious girl for Smith ever reached the feeling of love, is not known. No favor
was ever expected in return. 'I ask nothing of Captain Smith,' said she, in an
interview she afterward had with him in England, 'in recompense for what I have done,
but the boon of living in his memory.' John Randolph was a lineal descendant of this
noble woman, and was wont to pride himself upon the honor of his descent. Pocahontas
died in the twenty-second year of her age."--sketches of Virginia.
Song of Marion's Men (page 82.)
"Sallie St. Clair was a beautiful, dark-eyed Creole girl. The whole treasury of her
love was lavished upon Sergeant Jasper, who, on one occasion, had the good fortune
to save her life. The prospect of their separation almost maddened her. To sever
her long, jetty ringlets from her exquisite head--to dress in male attire--to enroll
herself in the corps to which he belonged, and follow his fortunes in the wars, unknown
to him--was a resolution no sooner conceived than taken. In the camp she attracted
no particular attention, except on the night before battle, when she was noticed bending
over his couch, like a good and gentle spirit, as if listening to his dreams. The
camp was surprised, and a fierce conflict ensued. The lovers were side by side in
the thickest of the fight; but, endeavoring to turn away a lance aimed at the heart
of Jasper, the poor girl received it in her own, and fell bleeding at his feet. After
the victory, her name and sex were discovered, and there was not a dry eye in the
corps when Sallie St. Clair was laid in her grave, near the river Santee, in a green,
shady nook, that looked as if it had been stolen out of Paradise."--Tales of Marion's
Men.
Janet McRea (page 83.)
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