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Title: The Loyalist
A Story of the American Revolution

Author: James Francis Barrett

Release Date: August 8, 2008 [EBook #26217]

Language: English

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THE LOYALIST

_A Story of the American Revolution_

BY

JAMES FRANCIS BARRETT

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

P. J. KENEDY & SONS
NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
P. J. KENEDY & SONS, NEW YORK

_Printed in U. S. A._

TO MY SISTER
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF LOVE AND ESTEEM

FOREWORD

Historical facts constitute the background of this story. Its hero and
its heroine are, of course, fictitious; but the deportment of General
Arnold, the Shippen family, the several military and civic personages
throughout the story is described, for the most part, accurately and in
conformity with the sober truths of history. Pains have been taken to
depict the various historical episodes which enter into the story--such
as the attempted formation of the Regiment of Roman Catholic Volunteers,
the court-martial of Major General Arnold, the Military Mass on the
occasion of the anniversary of American Independence--with as much
fidelity to truth as possible. The anti-Catholic sentences, employed in
the reprimand of Captain Meagher, are anachronisms; they are identical,
however, with utterances made in the later life of Benedict Arnold. The
influence of Peggy Shippen upon her husband is vouched for by eminent
authority.

Due appreciation and sincere gratitude must be expressed to those
authors from whom much information has been taken,--to John Gilmary
Shea, in his "History of the Catholic Church in the United States"; to
Martin I. J. Griffin's "Catholics and the American Revolution"; to F. J.
Stimson's excellent work, "Memoirs of Benedict Arnold"; to John Fiske's
"American Revolution," and to the many other works which have freely
been made use of in the course of this writing. Cordial thanks are also
due to those who ha