'From all my information, I intended to have halted at Cross Creek as a proper place to rest and refit the troops, and I was disappointed on my arrival there to find it totally impossible.'
-- Lord Cornwallis, whose weary British troops passed through Cross Creek in spring 1781 after retreating from the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, upon finding neither plentiful supplies nor Loyalist friends in Cross Creek as he had expected
'Let the people be told that the government of the United States is still in the power of their Citizens, and so must remain.'
-- Gov. Alexander Martin, addressing both houses of the General Assembly on the last day of the session in Fayetteville, Dec. 22, 1789
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'Martial music
proudly tread,
The stars and stripes
above me wave,
And lay my fife
beside me there,
I'd miss it even
in the grave;
And when ye rest
beside the spring
At morning's dawn
or evening's gloom
Discharge a volley
o'er the spot
And cheer the silence
of the tomb'
-- From a poem written by Louola Miller about Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry fifer Isaac Hammond, who supposedly made a dying request to be buried with his fife
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