Summary Of Noccalula Falls

The Noccalula Falls area was once a part of Cherokee County, but it had been taken in as a part of Etowah County. Etowah was a Creek Indian name that meant, “Tribe.” Standing on the rim of the falls with the cool water rushing around her bare feet, Charity looked down into the swirling pool of water eighty feet below and wondered if she was standing where the princess, Noccalula, had stood all those years before when she jumped into the swirling abyss and took her own life… Feeling the rocky, earth shift beneath her feet, she thought how easy it would be just to slip over the rim and into the depths of the pool below. All she had to do was to ease a little closer to the rim…
Even though she stood there and contemplated it, she couldn’t do

Apparently, Henry was not ready to leave either because he, too, wanted her to tell the story. She was surprised that Jackson even remembered the story she had told them about the Indian Princess, Noccalula, for whom the falls had been named; he was very young when she told it to them. When she said that she was not in a storytelling mood, she could see the disappointment on both their faces; she felt bad about it, but not bad enough to stay and tell the story.
Ever since, Aaron‘s death, Henry had been moody and brooding- she knew it was because he was worried and felt helpless. The war that he and everyone else thought would be over before it started had now been ongoing for a year and a half...
At first, the Confederate Army had managed to keep the fighting above the Mason Dixon line; however, Northern troops would slip past them and come deep into the Southern states; battles were occurring all around. They had heard of battles in a place called Shiloh, Tennessee, also in New Orleans, Yorktown and Richmond, Virginia. They’d even heard of a battle over at Fort Pulaski, which was located at the mouth of the Savannah River causing them to worry about Henry’s