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Story Behind the Image

"An Uncommon Miracle"

John Geiger, a disabled American patriot was unable to serve his country, however, he instilled in his beautiful daughter Emily a love of freedom and liberty. Emily being a young women was frustrated by her inability to serve in the war effort. She was often found speaking of her great desire to take up arms in her disabled fathers stead. Her excitement could not be contained when the opportunity presented itself to serve as a courier for General Nathaniel Greene. The British were planning an attack against the Americans. General Green needed to get an urgent message to General Sumter a hundred miles away, but was unable to find a willing man to carry it. The route was considered a death sentence, The dense forest road was crawling with British, yet Emily was eager to volunteer. General Greene, extremely hesitant to allow a teenage girl to brave the mission, explained the risks involved. If caught she could be tortured and would surely be tried for treason. Emily was ready to take the risk. General Greene wrote the dispatch, and sent her off to fill the mission.

On the second day she was seized upon by three British soldiers and transported to Lord Rawdon, He questioned her. She being young, innocent and unfamiliar with the art of lying, left Lord Rawdon suspicious. He had her locked in the guardhouse and called for a matron to have her searched. Left alone for a brief moment, she quickly pulled the letter from her pocket, committed it to memory, tore it to pieces and with no other way to dispose of it, began to eat it. She had scarcely finished the last piece when a woman appeared, Emily was searched from head to toe... finding nothing of suspicion she demanded her release. She mounted her horse and made haste, riding through the night to reach General Sumter. Weak, thirsty and faint she recited the message and within one hour General Sumter and his troops were ready to march to join General Greene.

It was two weeks before Emily returning home to her father. His sweet Emily risked everything for the cause of freedom... and succeeded, she was a common girl who became an uncommon miracle. General Greene and General Sumter combined their American forces and attacked Lord Rawdon. Their troops, crippled and unable to join Cornwallis, left him to fight General Washington and the approaching French fleet on his own at Yorktown.