Emily Geiger — born c. 1765 in the Lexington District, SC; died 1825. 🇺🇸
During Greene’s 1781 retreat from Ninety Six, no rider would risk carrying his orders to General Sumter on the Wateree — so Emily volunteered. She memorized the message, and when Rawdon’s scouts captured her on the second day, she ate the letter before a Tory matron could search her. Released, she delivered it from memory. Sumter marched to Orangeburg. A teenage girl with a memorized sentence changed the campaign.
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