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Excerpt from Extracts From the Memorial Volume of the Guilford Battle Ground Company
At noon an appreciative audience gathered around the speaker's stand, where Rev. B. F. Dixon, President of the greensboro-female College, opened the exercises with a patriotic prayer. The chorus sang My Country, 'tis of Thee and Judge Schenck introduced the orator of the day, Professor Edward Graham Daves, a native of New Bern and resident of Baltimore, through 'whose efforts the Monument was erected. The subject of his address was Maryland and North Carolina in the Campaign of i7so - '8i, and the speaker prefaced it by calling attention to the many battles of the Revolution, from Brandywine to Eutaw Springs. In which the troops of these two Colonies fought side by side. He gave a succinct but clear account of. The Guilford campaign, and showed the important role played by the men of North Carolina and Maryland in the last act of the great Revolutionary drama. Their conduct under the brilliant leadership of Greene decided the issue of the war, and the British historiah Stedman, who was the Commissary General of Cornwallis in thiscampaign, acknowledges that its events were of so momentous importance as to place within the grasp of 0the revolted Colonies the independence and sovereignty for which they had been so long contending. This scholarly paper of Professor Daves was afterwards read before the Maryland Historical Society, on November 14th 1892, and is printed in their Fund Publications.
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