XIV
THE PRAIRIE FIRE PANIC
Hull’s inglorious finish riled the Americans. They got their dander up, especially some high-tempered mountaineers in Tennessee and Kentucky, where General Hopkins raised 4,000 mounted militia. They treated America to the spectacle of a genuine rush—the real thing—a rush which measured up to every optimistic prediction of those who placed their faith in militia—4,000 fiery cava-
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