Book Review: 'A Demand of Blood' by Nadia Dean  By Jim Becker |
Dec 25, 2013  Remember the story of the tree that falls in the
forest when nobody was present to hear, did it make a sound?
When history happens we like to imagine that we will hear all
the facts.  However, there are realities to a battle that may
not be revealed until many years later. In fact it can be so
long in being discovered that its importance is not revealed
until several hundred years have passed. This is where the facts
emerge and make it possible for the importance of the story to
be appreciated.  Napoleon's historical view was that the victors
write the history. But there is much history that has not been
written; and therefore secret because it is silent, it has been
locked in diaries, letters and notes. Nadia Dean’s book on the
Cherokee war unlocks the silence and brings the facts to light.
The actual battles that took place in North Carolina in 1776 are
not easy to study. Gen. Rutherford’s campaign is very much like
the tree tha