The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the Revolutionary War With Great Britain) - Giving an Account of His Adventures in North Carolina, From 1775 to 1783 #234192

He was animated by a chivalrous loyalty to his lawful sovereign, and the idea of a united Empire, at least as disinterested and quite as commendable as the similar sentiments which fired the breast of the most faithful soldier of the Union who fought in the great American Civil War, and he was patriotically devoted to the interests of his country as he saw them.