February
13
Women in the Revolution
Emily Geiger was an American Revolutionary War spy .It was summer of 1781 American colonies were in the middle of a terrible war,patriots wanted independence from the british rule.British forced General Greene into a retreat.Greene needed to deliver a message to General Sumter.Emily Geiger offered to do it and General Greene said “Are you sure because you will have to go through all of the little wars and stuff like ,”that and she said “I will be just fine,”so General Greene let her go.While Emily Geiger was on her way General Greene and General Sumter joined forces against the british.While Emily was on her way she got stopped by theses two couples along the way to deliver the message and they told her that she could stay if she wanted to and so she did.When they got to dinner they were talking about british and then she realized that her guest were torys and they thought she was a tory to but really she wasn’t.Well she still stayed the night and in the early morning these british soldier came knocking on the couples door asking if they had seen a girl that was riding through the woods and Emily overheard them so she packed her stuff and climbed out of the window and then went to get back on her horse and got away before they caught her.Emily gets caught by some british tories and they take her in and Emily still had the letter in her riding jacket so she took it out of jacket pocket and memorized it so she could tell General Sumter.So after she got done memorizing it she shoved it into her mouth and swallowed it so that way they wouldn’t know that she was delivering a message.So the torie came in and said” There is nothing with this girl or nothing that she is going to say so she is good let her go.”She left got back on her horse and got to General Sumter and told him what the message had said and made it back safely.
