True Image by Patterson Daniel W

Author:Patterson, Daniel W.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Most of the battle accounts, however, are grim, whether from South or North Carolina. The conflict was too serious to allow much levity. Even dialect, which normally signals humor in the Scotch Irish tales, can rouse scarcely a smirk in one tale from the Battle of Ramsour’s Mill in Lincoln County, just across the Catawba from Mecklenburg. Many German settlers there supported King George and met their own Scotch Irish neighbors on this battlefield. In an account published in 1855, Joseph Graham wrote:

When the Tories were driven back the second time, and the left of their line became mixed with the Whigs, a Dutchman (of the Tories) meeting suddenly with an acquaintance of the Whigs addressed him, “Hey, how do you do Pilly? I has known you since you was a little poy, and I would not hurt one hair of your head, because I has never known no harm of you only that you was a rebel.” Billy, who was not so generous, and was much agitated, and his gun being empty, clubbed it and made a blow at the Dutchman’s head, which he dodged. The Dutchman cried out, “Oh, stop, stop! I is not going to stand still and be killed like a damned fool neder!” and raised the butt of his gun and made a blow at Billy’s head, which he missed, and one of Billy’s comrades, whose piece was loaded clapped his muzzle under the Dutchman’s arm and the poor fellow fell dead.81

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