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as skilfully as they handled their rifles; they were 

 also mighty hunters, and accustomed from boyhood 

 to Indian warfare. The children received the best 

 schooling the back country could afford, for they 

 were a book-loving race, fond of reading and study 

 as well as of out-door sports. The two chief mem- 

 bers were cousins, Arthur and William. Arthur 

 was captured by the Northern Indians when sixteen, 

 and was kept a prisoner among them several years ; 

 when Lord Dunmore's war broke out he made his 

 escape, and acted as scout to the earl's army. He 

 served as militia colonel in different Indian cam- 

 paigns, and was for thirty years a magistrate of 

 the county; he was a man of fine presence, but of 

 jealous, ambitious, overbearing temper. He com- 

 bined with his fondness for Indian and hunter life 

 a strong taste for books, and gradually collected a 

 large library. So keen were the jealousies, bred of 

 ambition, between himself and his cousin William 

 Campbell, they being the two ranking officers of the 

 local forces, that they finally agreed to go alternately 

 on the different military expeditions; and thus it 

 happened that Arthur missed the battle of King's 

 Mountain, though he was at the time County Lieu- 

 tenant. 



William Campbell stood next in rank. He was 

 a man of giant strength, standing six feet two inches 

 in height, and straight as a spear-shaft, with fair 

 complexion, red hair, and piercing, light blue eyes. 

 A firm friend and stanch patriot, a tender and 

 loving husband and father, gentle and cour- 



