Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Old Market Street, Chester, Pennsylvania: Historic Incidents That Have Taken Place Within, or Are Associated With This Highway
Strange how slight an incident in the life of an individual may result in dispelling the oblivion with which time generally enshrouds the memory of the dead. In Archy Campbell we are confronted by one of these pecul iar cases. The story shows three years thereafter. Mad Archy compelled Rev. Edward Ellington, by a threat in event of refusal to shoot the clergy man, the lady and himself, to perform the ceremony of marriage whereby the lovely Paulina Philips, of Charleston, without prior engagement, became his wife, is one of the most romantic inci dents that cluster about the history of the little English church on Goose 'creek, South Carolina. It has furnished William Gilmore Simms with material for a chapter in his Katharine Wal ton, and has imparted interest to in numerable magazine and newspaper articles. While the fellow-members of his Lordship's staff are forgotten, Archy's marriage more than his death in battle six months thereafter, has kept his memory green.
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