Excerpt from University Magazine, Vol. 1: March, 1878 It is surely most appropriate, that, here at Guilford Court House, almost within cannon shot of that battle field, which has passed inte history by this name - in the busy hearts of mena - in the place of public assemblage cf the people - amid institutions Mine ln struction of the young - in sight of a great railway, the intelligent traveler on which, feels as he passes your borders, that then he is in classic land - that here, rather thele on the immediate hut now solitary scene of the conflict, there should be some striking memento of the illustrious American Commander who, though apparently defeated on that battle field, there rolled back the tide of invasion, which had pursued him for six hundred miles, delivered the State of North Carolina from conquest, and gave to his consummate ad nersary a check and a wound, which eventuated in his surrender at Yo1ktow11. 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.