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him, " Save the Baron De Kalb ! save the Baron De Kalb !" 

 On hearing his name, the British officers interposed, and res- 

 cued them both from the fury of the men. The former sur- 

 vived but a fev7 hours. The British officer who had him in 

 charge bestowed upon him every attention. As he condoled 

 with him in his misfortune, De Kalb extended him his hand in 

 gratitude, saying, " I thank you for your generous sympathy, 

 but I die the death I always prayed for, the death of a soldier 

 fighting for the rights of man." His last moments were 

 spent in dictating a letter to General Smallwood, in which he 

 expressed an affection for his soldiers, and his confidence in 

 their valour. Gen. Washington, it is said, when he visited 

 Camden, inquired for the grave of De Kalb, and upon its being 

 pointed out to him, observed with great emotion, " So, there 

 lies the brave De Kalb, the generous stranger, who came from 

 a distant land to fight our battles, and to water with his blood 

 the tree of our liberty. Would to God he had lived to share 

 its fruits." Lee, in his memoirs, says "that the Baron De 

 Kalb was sober, drinking water only ; abstemious to excess ; 

 living on bread, sometimes with beef soup, at other times with 

 cold beef; industrious, it being his constant habit to rise at 

 five in the morning, light his candle, and devote himself to 

 writing."* 



DOOLY. 



Boundaries, Extent. — Bounded N. by Houstoun and a 

 portion of Macon ; E. by Pulaski and a part of Irwin ; S. by 

 Irwin and a part of Baker ; and W. by Sumter and Lee. Or- 

 ganized in 1821, Length 35 miles, breadth 32; area 1,120 

 square miles. 



Rivers and Creeks. — The Flint river traverses the western 

 line of the county. The streams of less importance are the 

 Pennahatchee, Hogcrawl, Lampkin's, Limestone, Cedar, and 



* In a work entitled Sketches of North Carolina, there is an interesting 

 account of the last moments of De Kalb, given b}' the Rev. Humphrey 

 Hunter, an eminent Presbyterian minister, who vi^as a revolutionary charac- 

 ter, and witnessed the death of the brave soldier. 



