The Secret Message (Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution)

In 1781, when British Loyalists battled for control of the South Carolina backcountry, General Nathanel Greene, commander of the Continental Army in the South, needed to get a message to General Thomas Sumter. As the British army lay between Greene s and Sumter s camps, eighteen-year-old Emily Geiger volunteered to ride through the dangerous enemy territory to deliver the special message