Emily Geiger (c. 1765–1825) was a Patriot messenger active during the American Revolutionary War. Captured by Loyalists whilst on a mission to deliver a message on behalf of General Nathanael Greene, Geiger ate the written message in her possession. Upon release she verbally delivered the letter to its recipient.

When Lydia Emily Geiger was born on 25 October 1863, in Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Mathias Daniel Geiger, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Ann Harman, was 34. She died on 10 October 1869, in her hometown, at the age of 5, and was buried in Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.

2016年5月17日 · Revolutionary War heroine. Geiger was the daughter of John Geiger, a German farmer. Little is known of her early life. In June 1781 Emily Geiger volunteered to be a courier for General Nathanael Greene, who needed an urgent message delivered to …

2024年10月23日 · At last a girl eighteen years old came to General Greene and offered her services for the desperate enterprise. This was Emily, daughter of John Geiger. The father was a true patriot, but being a cripple, was unable to serve as a soldier, and the daughter was anxious for a chance to have the family do something for the country.

Emily Geiger is an American Revolutionary War heroine who was captured by the Tories while on a military mission as a civilian. She was carrying an important message across enemy grounds when she was captured and questioned. The Tory matron could find nothing on her seeing as she physically ate the message, so they had to let her go.

2023年1月26日 · Lyman C. Draper, author of Kings Mountain and Its Heroes, was informed by sixty-six-year-old “Maj. Theodore Starke” of Columbia, South Carolina, that Emily Geiger did not ride alone, but was accompanied by his aunt, Rebecca Starke, then about seventeen years old. “The girls [were] put in a room, & women sent for to search them.

2023年5月23日 · About Emily Geiger. In June of 1781, an 18-year-old Emily Geiger was living with her invalid father in upcountry South Carolina when the American Revolutionary War broke out. Although South Carolina was largely occupied by the British at the time, General Nathaniel Greene was camped near the Geiger homestead.

2023年11月23日 · Emily Geiger: South Carolina Heroine Of The Revolutionary War (History of American Women)

One of those women was Emily Geiger. The bearing of important dispatches through an enemy’s country is an enterprise that always requires both courage and address. Miss Emily Geiger performed such a feat during the American Revolution, under difficult circumstances.

GEIGER, Emily, Revolutionary heroine, born about 1760. At the period when General Greene retreated before Lord Rawdon from Ninety-Six, South Carolina. during the Revolutionary war, and had passed Broad River, he was anxious to send an order to General Sumter, who was then encamped on the Wateree, to join him and attack Rawdon, who had divided ...