A Little Maid of Virginia (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Little Maid of Virginia Rosa elinor moore was eleven years old when her little cousin, Mary Lou Abbott, came to live with her at the beautiful home of her par ents near Yorktown. This was in the Spring of 1781 during the War of the Revolution. The two little girls had many exciting adventures and witnessed a great deal of the action which took place there. They even met and talked to the Marquis de Lafayette. In the fall of 1781 Rose Elinor and Mary Lou with Mr. And Mrs. Moore drove to Yorktown to witness Cornwallis's sur render. There they saw Washington, Lafayette. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.