Excerpt from James Sprunt Historical Monograph, Vol. 7: William Richardson Davie: A Memoir, Followed by His Letters With Notes As in the case of many others of the Revolutionary charac ters of North Carolina, we lack many facts that would b interest and value in regard to the life and ancestry of G eral Davie. At his death he left more of the material fr which history is written than most Southern men, but nea all of this disappeared in the wholesale robbery and de tion that accompanied Sherman's march through South olina. Thus many documents that would throw much li on his early life and that would give a clear idea of his cha acter, are missing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.