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Dicey Langston - Revolutionary War Heroine
Genealogical Records Timeline of Events in Dicey Langston’s Life Dicey Langston’s Obituary Women of the American Revolution Bloody Scouts History of Traveler’s Rest Dicey Langston - Revolutionary War Heroine Toggle Menu Laodicea (Dicey) Langston Springfield Available in Kindle and Paperback Would you have the courage to traverse over five miles in the middle of the night crossing a rushing swollen river to save your friends from certain death? If villains held your family at gunpoint, what would you do? Wo
During the Revolutionary War, fifteen-year-old Dicey Langston overheard that a band of Loyalists known as the “ Bloody Scouts ” were going to attack the Elder Settlement at Little Eden, South Carolina at dawn. She set out on foot in the middle of the night, crossed a swollen river, nearly drowned, but made it in time to warn her brother James so that he and his men could warn the settlement. When the Bloody Scouts arrived the next day, the Elder Settlement had been evacuated.