Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil: A Young Virginian in the Revolution

# Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil: A Young Virginian in the Revolution

By Edward Mostyn Lloyd (1916). Set in Virginia, November 1779, this adventure serial follows sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson during the American Revolution. Tom, an impetuous youth from Oxheart Plantation, learns that Virginia's lead supply for musket ammunition has been exhausted—a crisis threatening the army's survival. Determined to aid the cause, he plans an expedition to Georgia to locate a new lead mine, intending to recruit Pat Carr (an Irish blacksmith and former soldier missing one leg), his Cherokee stepson Unaka (a boy with remarkable powers over animals), and Ishmael. The narrative captures life on a Virginia plantation, military anxieties, and the youthful patriotism driving Tom to abandon his schooling. The contents list—forty-two chapters including "Border Warfare," "The Black Dragoons," and "An Indian Secret"—promises adventure combining frontier perils, military intrigue, and personal drama across the war-torn Carolinas and Virginia.