tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5346156233154656612024-03-13T09:09:09.711-07:00History Man 1781History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-58711749117648202962018-11-09T10:51:00.000-08:002018-11-20T05:07:34.696-08:00Taylor saves Sumter<br />
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The Patriot fires blazed hot by the banks of the Broad River
on November 9, 1780.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colonel Thomas Taylor
had convinced General Sumter of prudent measures against an impending attack.<o:p></o:p></div>
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British Major Wemyss and his band of loyalists charged into
the light of the fires, intent on finally killing General Thomas Sumter and his
warriors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What they found was an empty
camp.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Confused and suddenly stifled by the shift in realities, the Red-Coats
began to feel about in search of their prey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Silhouetted against the firelight they were easy targets for the Patriot
forces lying in the shadows and trees beyond the camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sudden and deadly fire quickly decimated
the British forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Major Wemyss went
from hunter to hunted within moments.</div>
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Wemyss had a list of all of the homes and plantations that he had destroyed. Sumter is said to have burned that list for fear his men would seek immediate justice by killing the British commander.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sumter, as a result of the decisive action of Colonel
Taylor, was able to claim victory over another of Cornwallis’ commanders.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sumter’s men; having participated in the pivotal victory
over British Major Patrick Ferguson at King’s Mountain the month before, now
can claim their share of honors over a formidable leader of the eastern wing of
Cornwallis’ army.</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u>Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in
South Carolina</u>, John C. Parker Jr.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-31556806091713988072018-10-17T14:54:00.000-07:002018-10-17T14:54:33.250-07:00Revenge could not wait<br />
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<b>Revenge could not wait, smallpox or not</b>. Captain Robert
Harrison was a dangerous menace to all Patriots. He would be found bedridden by
a scouting party on October 14, 1780 near the Antioch community in Kershaw County.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Before the fall of Charleston, the Harrison brothers lived
in a run-down log cabin near the Lynches River, east of Bishopville, SC.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">They slept on animal skins strewn about the
floor.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Near the sandy roadway, by a
Ferry crossing, they lived with the pungent smell of dead fish and stagnant
water.(1)</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Then Charleston fell to the British and the Red-coats made their
way inland towards Camden and Cheraw. With the Continental army in disarray,
all was working out well for the King’s men.</span><span style="text-align: center;">
</span><span style="text-align: center;">Camden was occupied, and the fortifications were continually improved
around the camp. Those seeking protection from the Empire were urged to come in
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But the summer heat and mosquitoes took their toll on the
troops and Cornwallis was faced with a serious problem of keeping an army in
the field. If he did not act soon, all the gains would be for naught. The
rebels would recognize a weakness and make trouble for those who had already pledged
loyalty to the King. (2)<o:p></o:p></div>
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An opportunity was recognized by the Harrison men. The more
enterprising of the brothers, John, convinced Lord Cornwallis that it would be a
good idea to give him and two of his siblings (Robert and Samuel) commissions
in the army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would raise upwards of
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Thus, they began their campaign of legal murder and robbery
throughout the PeeDee area under the British command of Major James Wemyss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Burning homes and plantations, they quickly
became hated by their neighbors and known as bandits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even British Major “Bloody Tarleton” would
refer to them as “men of fortune” instead of soldiers. (3)<o:p></o:p></div>
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A week after the Patriot victory at King’s Mountain, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Robert Harrison was found bedridden in
a house off present-day SC Hwy 34. He was a victim of smallpox and yet another
statistic of medical infirmities that plagued the British soldiers in camp. Quarantined
away from the troops until his blistered body succumbed to the viral disease or
beat it back, he was helpless and ostracized. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The band of rebels, bolstered by the success of their
compatriots in the upstate, kicked in the door to the house and found him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not willing to take a chance on the disease
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John, on the other hand, retired as a Colonel in east
Florida with the wealth he had taken from his years of murder and robbery under
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1) </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in
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<span style="font-size: x-small; text-indent: -0.25in;">(2)<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small; text-indent: -0.25in;"><u>The British Soldier in America</u>, Sylvia
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-30783407306462858762018-10-11T08:35:00.000-07:002018-10-21T04:18:33.866-07:00Mr. and Mrs. William Moore<br />
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<b>William Moore was a bold and fearless fighter during the
Revolutionary war.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Taking up his rifle
and horse, he would leave his wife at home to confront the British before they
came to his doorstep.</i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On making the long journey from Abingdon, Virginia with
Colonel Campbell, he proved himself in the eyes of his leader. He was selected at Cowpens, SC to be a part of
the flying column. This 900-man force
was culled from the bigger army that had come and camped at Cowpens in the hunt
for Major Ferguson. Moore headed off
with this fast-moving contingent that ultimately surrounded the British at Kings
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The warriors that fought with Campbell were described by an
injured Tory, Drury Mathis, as darting about the mountain during the battle “like
enraged lions.” Drury went on to say, “they were the most powerful looking men
he had ever beheld; not over-burdened with fat, but tall, raw boned, and sinewy,
with long matted hair…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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William Moore was among these men of the mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the battle he was wounded badly in the
leg and it was amputated in the field to save his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moving back over the mountains on a 10-day
journey was not something he could do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Potential
for infection was too high and a lack of medical supplies a reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was left in the care of nearby good Samaritans
while his compatriots made the long journey home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once at home, they gladly recounted their tails of victory
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<b>Hearing that her husband
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Back across the November mountains and down through North
Carolina she rode with bold determination to find her loved one. She camped
beneath the stars and elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She forded
rivers and streams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her journey was as like
and long as the army that preceded her, but without the company of thousands of
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Their story certainly had the makings of a ballad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He, leaving home to protect her and she,
leaving home to find and care for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They loved and lived to be a ripe old age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their story was a source of pride and a
touchstone of patriotic fervor for the family generations afterward. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u>King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: History of
King’s Mountain, October7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It</u>, Lyman
Draper, Anthony Allaire<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-76674154234941846822018-10-08T12:37:00.002-07:002018-10-09T04:36:44.220-07:00Robert Henry with the South Fork boys<br />
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<b>Impaled by bayonet and concealed by the powder smoke</b>, Robert
Henry, a mere 16 years of age, was forced to lay prostrate and helpless as the
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The bayonet charges were a mainstay in the British army and
Major Patrick Ferguson had taught his loyalist troops well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With shouts of Huzzah to the King they fired
their muskets at close range and charged down the rocky portions of Kings Mountain
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Through the understory of sourwood, dogwood and rhododendron
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Robert Henry’s leader, Major Chronicle, fell mortally wounded at
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They were nearing the top of the rise when Ferguson’s
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Robert Henry was able to kill the red coated soldier coming for him at the last
moment, but not before the bayonet skewered him through his hand and into his
thigh. He was immobilized and helpless
as the powder smoke hung heavy in the air. So, he waited in agony and feared
that he might be discovered and finished off by another soldier of the
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The British charged down the rocky hillside with professional skill. Henry’s fellow Patriots
would fire their rifles and race away only yards ahead of the cold steel;
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Once their rifles had been recharged, the South Fork boys
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Robert Henry stared down the Grim Reaper and shared in the glory of the victory that autumn day. He was carried to his nearby home to heal. </div>
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Here, at Kings Mountain, a lowly 16 year old private fought the greatest nation in the known world on some of the hottest contested ground in the war. He would turn with others to face a precipice fortified by one of the King's fittest soldiers. Within an hour's time, he was charged in anger with bullet and blade and was impaled and left for dead. He was then rescued and gave battle to the enemy until victory was won.</div>
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<u>King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of Kings
Mountain, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It, </u>Lyman
Draper<u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-39234321739883070522018-09-24T11:30:00.000-07:002018-09-24T21:10:50.645-07:00Benjamin Cleveland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Colonel Benjamin Cleveland was of the same bold character as Daniel Boone and found his most delightful pleasure in hunting rather than plowing. As a
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Cleveland trekked off to Kentucky after
hearing Daniel Boone talk with great admiration of the hunting lands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his friends were robbed by Indians and sent packing on foot, back to the
Watauga region around Wilkes County, NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After recuperating from his journey he marched back over the
mountains to retrieve the horses from the very Indians that had stolen
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a show-down with the main suspect Indian,
Cleveland narrowly escapes a tomahawk and a gunshot from the enraged guilty
party. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was able to ride away with
the property reacquired and a feather in his cap of self-confidence.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cleveland would brag that his ancestor was the Oliver
Cromwell who was renowned for his leadership of England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benjamin owned a copy of <span style="background: white; color: #1e2034;"> "The Life and Adventures of Mr. Cromwell, Natural
Son of Oliver Cromwell” and would point to it when making this claim.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one can speak of something and thereby
cause it to be, simply by applied belief, then it is probable Benjamin
Cleveland identified with the "bigger than life" persona of Oliver Cromwell. Cleveland’s
intrepid spirit certainly was as bold as Cromwell; or at least the character of
the biography, Cromwell’s son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> At close to six feet in height and w</span>eighing
in at a solid 300lbs of big muscle, few would wish to dispute Cleveland's force of
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<span style="background: white; color: #1e2034;">Cleveland’s men were brutal and
confident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever portraying an aura of
wildness, some would wear Scottish Tartans and Kilts that they had taken off dead
Highland Scot Tories at the Battle of Moore’s Bridge in 1776.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were rough men who mirrored the
personality of their leader and were known to the Tories as “Cleveland’s Devils”.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(4)</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1e2034;">During the Revolution, Benjamin Cleveland was busy running about the upcountry of North Carolina with his men chasing Tories. It was in the midst of this action when the call went out from Isaac Shelby and John Sevier to rally and meet Major Ferguson’s threats head on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1e2034;">Prior to the Battle of King’s
Mountain, Cleveland made an impassioned speech to his men who understood life and death in their extremities. M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">atter of fact in its delivery, i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">t spoke to the unfettered resolve of the men under his command.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">“My brave fellows!</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">We have beat the Tories before, and can beat
them again.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">They are all cowardly.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">If they had the spirit of men they would have
joined your fellow citizens in supporting the Independence of this Country.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">When engaged, you are not to wait for the
word of command from me.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">I will show you
how by my example on how to fight.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">I can
undertake no more.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">Everyman must consider
himself an officer, and act on their own judgement.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">Fire as quick as you can, and stand as long
as you can without tiring.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">When you can
do no better, get behind a tree or retreat.</span><span style="color: #1e2034;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e2034;">I beg you not to run away, but if you do make it a point to return to
battle as quickly as possible, and renew the fight.”</span><span style="color: #1e2034; font-size: x-small;">(5)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1e2034;"><span style="background-color: white;">Born and raised into a mindset of independence and self reliance, he bravely fought his way in and out of battle. His exploits reverberate in Freedom's call even today. He was a feared and revered and was one of the heroes of King's Mountain. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1e2034;"><span style="background-color: white;">After the war he moved to Oconee County, SC and is buried on private property near Westminister, SC off of Hwy 123. In the Madison community, close to the Savannah River, an obelisk bearing his name can be found near the Madison Baptist Church. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(6)</span></span></span><br />
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-3681980722508869822018-09-20T09:39:00.000-07:002018-09-20T12:00:19.065-07:00Signal Fires<br />
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Local folklore in and around Wilkes and Caldwell Counties in
NC reveal the story of Martin Gambill. His 100-mile journey to warn the Patriots
of the British invasion into the mountains is the stuff of Legends. The story goes that the watch fires that had
been placed upon the top of the mountains as an early warning system did not
reach into the Watauga area where a good portion of the Liberty men
resided. Thus he volunteered to ride
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theater of operations is spotty at best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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this writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find evidence of
similar watch fires used in the northern theaters of operation as Washington
ordered them placed in the Hudson Hills in New York and the Watchung Mountains of
New Jersey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter of these was
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In the Watchung Mountains these fires of freedom had three
main purposes: “<span style="color: #444444;">to call out the militia, to indicate
the approach direction of the British and to direct the subsequent movements of
the militia.</span>”<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "lato" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There were also instructions on their construction
and placements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty-three signal pyres
were constructed in the New Jersey mountainsides and manned by close to two
dozen soldiers each. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Later, DeKalb fought and died at the Battle of Camden, SC in the
Southern Theater of Operations months before Kings Mountain. General Gates, his
commanding officer at Camden, was still around Hillsborough, NC and recognized
by the Patriots there as having Continental authority. It is not a hard leap to suspect that there
is some truth to the legend of these watch-fires, even if they did not look quite as stately as the fictitious Gandor beacons.</div>
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Southern Continental strategy, it certainly causes this author to want to dig
deeper. It is not hard to fathom signal fires on the top of Table Rock, Grandmother and Grandfather Mountains and the smaller precipices further down Highway 64, or even into the Pisgah National Forest. It harkens back to the warning fires of the Peel towers in Scottish
castles. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(4)</span> </span></div>
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-31135910062320371972018-09-14T08:14:00.000-07:002018-09-14T08:48:19.635-07:00The Davenports<br />
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Ferguson’s 1000-man army in the mountains and helped to subdue the rebel
element there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All through the mountain
back country Ferguson’s men would search for the patriot militiamen and turn
their wrath on rebel families when the men folk were not at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The women and children were turned out and
the property was destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With nowhere
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McFall and his men had rushed the Davenport home near Wilson
Creek at the John’s River in search of Captain Martin Davenport of the Burke County militia. The good Captain was off
serving in the field so McFall forced Mrs. Davenport to feed his band of
Loyalists. When young Davenport boldly
refused McFall’s demands and took up his father’s independent spirit, McFall
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</span>Captain Martin Davenport sought freedom and independence in the solitude of the
mountains just west of the Linville caverns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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of the community around Lenoir as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was a magistrate, State representative and State Senator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Davenport Women’s College was his
namesake and the buildings upon that hill still house an elementary school as
well as the Caldwell Heritage Museum.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(3) </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Freedom Reigns!</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-11061730112509587372018-09-12T04:01:00.000-07:002018-09-12T04:01:31.407-07:00the McDowells<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In September
of 1780 British Major Patrick Ferguson raised his army of over 1000 men and
headed up into the North Carolina Mountains. Going through present day, Chesney,
SC and onto Rutherfordton, NC., his army would live off the land as they worked
their way from community to hamlet. On the general route laid out by the old
Hwy 64 in NC., they rousted leaders and families to subdue the rebellion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ferguson had
missed Colonel Isaac Shelby who had already made good his retreat over the
mountains. But the left-wing commander of Cornwallis’ army had caught the scent
of NC militia Colonel Charles McDowell and his force of about 160 men. McDowell
was headed for the Watauga river valley in Tennessee, which is northwest of the
present-day Beech Mountain snow resort of North Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Charles and
his band of warriors had gone into South Carolina to stall Cornwallis and lend
aid where they could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McDowell was a
prominent man in his community and he and his wife manufactured gunpowder in
the Quaker Meadows of Morganton, NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McDowell
had been appointed as a Colonel in the Burke County, NC militia and his
brother, Joseph (a Major), served under him in all their military engagements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They had hoped to battle the King’s men in South Carolina and keep them away
from their homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colonel McDowell had
sent out forces that won at Fort Thicketty and Musgrove Mill and the McDowells
had done their duty and given aid and sword wherever they could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now they were on the retreat.</span> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As brothers
they were a force to be reckoned with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where one, Charles, had the confidence of the local leaders; the other,
Joseph, was a true fighter who inspired the men from Burke County and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When Ferguson
marched up old Hwy 64, the McDowells were ready for him at the headwaters of the
Cane Creek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Patriots,
though outnumbered, had laid an ambush up on the high ground and challenged the
Lobster backs, led by their British Major.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On September 12, 1780 Patriot shots were fired from concealed positions
and the Loyalists recoiled from the initial surprise, but they rallied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With rifle and bayonet, Ferguson’s men began to make headway toward the
Patriot lines up the hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Joseph McDowell
was heard swearing and yelling for his men to stand and die with him if need
be, and that he would never yield!</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rifle fire would mix with yells, screams and smoke in that
shadow of the South Mountains. The Patriots fought for time and freedom to make
good their escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Brits only
left the field after they claimed victory, but they came up short in the fray.
Bones from the fight were still found four decades later, strewn across the
battlefield. These remnants of the dead seemed to belie the viewpoint of
victory that Ferguson’s men professed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the end, both sides lost men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But the
McDowells were able to make good their escape. The Brits made their way back to
Gilbert town with an unknown number of dead and wounded. Among the wounded was one Captain James Dunlap, a veteran of
the Queen’s Rangers and leader of a troop of Loyalist mounted riflemen. Out of action for some time and convalescing from a serious
wound to the leg, he would not see action again with Major Ferguson. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dunlap was
sheltered in a Loyalist home and could not move with the army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would
later be shot by the Patriots seeking revenge for the death of Noah Hampton in South Carolina. His attackers failed to make sure he was dead, though, and he dodged their attempt to end his life.
Rumor, lies and a false grave were utilized to stay one step ahead of his
pursuers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps the
most telling result of this “check” by McDowell on Ferguson was what happened in the next few weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Word got out to the countryside of the intrusion
of the King’s forces into the mountain regions. In a short time, Ferguson
begins to hear that an army of mountaineers are coming like a fog out of the
high valleys across the Blue Ridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming
for him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Reckoning was coming!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Freedom
Reigns!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/patriot_leaders_nc_charles_mcdowell.html">http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/patriot_leaders_nc_charles_mcdowell.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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(2)<u>King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: A History of the
Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 1780, and the Events Which
Led to It</u>., Lyman C. Draper, Anthony Allaire<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-42858660830335306952018-09-11T07:27:00.000-07:002018-09-11T11:14:04.440-07:00The Twin Poplars<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Local legend has it that over 280 years ago the Catawba and
the Cherokee Indians were locked in a brutal and savage conflict in the smoky
hills around Lenoir, North Carolina.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So
many warriors were killed on both sides that the leaders came together to talk
peace, not as victor over vanquished, but as equals.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Distrust an enmity were conquered and peace
was made..at least temporarily.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
symbol of that peace would be two trees and their ability to grow together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Written language was an unknown to these fearless people on
both sides. Sequoyah did not develop the Cherokee written language until over
70 years later, consequently there is no known text of this conflict and
treaty. The historical record from our own Revolution seem to at least confirm
the opposing relationships between these two tribes. The Cherokee aligned with
the British and the Catawba fought alongside of the Patriots almost 40 years afterward.
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Near the headwaters of the Catawba River we find road signs like
Warrior Rd., Twin Poplar Ln. and Indian Grave Road that seem to memorialize
what the history books do not. Boone NC
beckons the modern-day traveler, but coves cut into the mountains just off of Highway
321 harbor the stuff of local folklore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">The war ranged all through these coves and valleys. Some of
the burials are rumored to have occurred in the caves that are shared by bear
and coyote to this day. Dirt roads now cover the foot trails and hunting paths
from the past. Black top and development
roll over the creeks and crevices where the warriors would drink and hide. Private
land with title and tax have replaced the free range of the Indians of a bygone
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the energetic and knowledgeable help of Cindy Day, the
Director of the Caldwell Heritage Museum, and her equally magnanimous colleague
Lisa Ward, the Twin Poplars were found rising
like ancient pillars in the secluded local lands. With each cautious step down the wet and steep
terrain, we were transported back in time.
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The mountains in this part of the country breath and give
off a haze that paint the landscape blue as the peaks rise with a smoky
mist. The trees were draped in this
phenomenon as we made our way to their base.
Nature would paint a sacred picture to this cathedral of peace and lend
itself to bolster the story even more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Legend of the Twin Poplars suggests that the leaders of
this ancient and violent war came together and tied two poplars as a symbol of
the peace. If the poplars were to grow
together, then their peace would survive.
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the naked eye it does appear that the bases of each tree,
separated as they are, have their own individual root systems. Their trunks being so far apart, it would seem
implausible for them to have grown together without some artificial help from
man. Whether that help came from the
indigenous tribes of yesteryear or some farmer thereafter is but speculation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When hurricane Hugo came through in 1989 much of the forest
was decimated by the high winds that swept up into the mountains from the
coast. Old growth trees were a natural victim
and many feared that the twin poplars would not survive. As the curious probed the deadwoods after the
storm they rejoiced to find them still standing tall and proud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We may never know if the Legend of the Twin
Poplars is fact or fiction. It is
certainly, though, a story of folklore that resonates within us and causes us
to reapply ourselves to the convictions of peace and harmony. Their natural appearance in the wood
certainly gives majesty to our walk upon this earth and heaps credit on the
Creator for His good work. Whatever the
origin of their union, these ancient poplars and their union are a natural monument
to the better parts of our human nature.</span></span><br />
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sitter”</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> during the war
with the mother country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was, as a son of his father Evan Shelby, a proponent by deed of the Fincastle Resolutions and had
resolved to "live and die" while never surrendering his "inestimable privileges".</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)</span> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">He understood Freedom and slavery.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">He understood the Quebec acts as intolerable to his Protestant background, his sense of justice and his rights as a citizen to have a say in how one is governed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">He won that nickname at the age of 29 on the wet, steep hillsides of King’s Mountain. There, British Col. Patrick Ferguson waited for his approach. Along with Shelby came over a thousand Patriot warriors from Over the Mountain. </span></span><br />
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Ferguson had a poor view of Shelby and the Over the Mountain men. In his mind they had run from him at Wofford's Iron Works (Battle of Cedar Springs) in Spartanburg. The band of rugged Patriots had taunted the King's men from a hill and led them on a merry chase that left Ferguson frustrated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">His letter to Cornwallis revealed a positive attitude towards the number of loyalists coming into camp. Ferguson then made ready to gather more supplies and search for cattle to feed his growing army. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)</span></span></span><br />
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But Ferguson was unaware that he was being tricked and was in a chess match with his betters. Shelby, along with his fellow leaders at Musgrove Mill, convinced the inhabitants of the mountain regions around Gilbert Town to take shelter under the King's protection. By doing this they would be able to save their cattle that they had hid away in the mountain passes for the Patriot cause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ferguson's soldiers sallied forth out of camp in search of beef among the Patriot farmers. Finding a herd they began their work of preparing the meat for the meals. As they were well into their work, Ferguson was informed that they had been decimating the herds of three of his own loyalist men. Ferguson had been duped by Colonel Shelby and British influence in the area suffered even more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">About that same time, Colonel Ferguson paroled an Over the Mountain prisoner in his entourage and sent him with a message to Isaac Shelby in particular. Samuel Philips found Shelby and relayed the message, "If they did not desist from their opposition to the British arms, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword." Philips, ever the soldier, then set about giving particulars on the makeup of Ferguson's army to Colonel Shelby.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shelby and the leaders at Musgrove Mills had foreseen that Ferguson had plans for their mountain homeland even before he had left the South State. They had agreed to begin recruiting an army to confront Ferguson as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Now was the time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shelby would take the lead and find John Sevier and other leaders and start towards the invading army. Dispatches and messengers were sent throughout the mountains.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>They came in droves</b>. Hundreds from different counties and valleys converged on the meeting places in Morganton and Gilbert Town. They came, on horseback and on foot, with a purpose to confront the threats of Colonel Ferguson and the British realm. These were wild hunters of hearty stock who understood Freedom and self government. They were armed with rifles and were expert marksmen. They came over the snow covered mountains and down through the valleys. They forded mountain streams and rivers while keeping their powder dry. They came on knowing that they might not come back. They came in droves. <b>With Colonel Shelby</b>....<b>They came for a Reckoning!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ferguson, at first, did not comprehend his peril. He allowed his personal biases to not see his enemy for what it was...a battle-hardened foe led by Colonel Shelby (and others). He either couldn't or wouldn't see that Shelby was neither awed by British might nor one to lose a fight. Colonel Ferguson lingered, hoping to cut off Georgia Patriot Col. Elijah Clarke coming from Augusta, Ga. He would wind his way back down the mountain passes, stall for a little more time for Clarke to appear. The Redcoats would then feint southwest towards Ninety Six and ultimately head east to draw on support from Lord Cornwallis. Clarke never showed, but Shelby and company came on with a purpose and closed the distance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cornwallis was easily within reach at Charlotte, NC had Ferguson simply been prudent. But Ferguson chose the small mountain spur of King's Mountain to make his stand. He had trained and bragged about his group of Loyalists in his camp and now that confidence would be tested. Ferguson trusted in his position and his loyal troops numbering close to 1000 men at arms. He would even boast about his chosen defensive position and swore it could not be taken.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)</span> </span></span></span><br />
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them Indian play; advance from tree to tree, pressing the enemy and killing and
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The battle raged for just over an hour and Ferguson was left dead on the field. His words to Colonel Shelby had inflamed the Patriot zeal and left the British leader cold and prostrate. <b>Shelby, by contrast, stood erect, unscathed</b> and was every bit in control of his men and his duty.</span><br />
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prisoners were ordered to line up and shoulder rifles that were stacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An elderly loyalist of King George feigned old age as a reason
for not picking his up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shelby slapped
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in his honor, including the North Carolina city just north of Kings Mountain</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">.</span> <b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Freedom Reigns!</span></b></span></div>
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Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry</span></a></span><span style="color: #181818;">,
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-62697404833938760132018-08-30T02:40:00.000-07:002018-08-30T04:09:42.164-07:00Juniper Springs June 18, 1781<br />
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The British regrouped at Vaudant’s Old Fields before continuing their march north. Here they buried 4 of the King’s men and 4
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The graves of the these unknown soldiers can be found in a corn field on Cedar Grove Rd. Silent markers of stone sit upright like Cypress knees to mark the earthen beds of the fallen. Poor monuments to the conflict and the men who helped win our Liberty. </div>
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Greene's strategy of attrition was working. The British ultimately abandoned Ninety Six and consolidated their forces in Orangeburg.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span> <b>Freedom Reigns! </b></div>
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his ignoble defeat at Camden was to appoint Francis Marion as the Brigadier
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his way towards the Santee, Marion learned of Gate’s demise on August 16, 1780. He declined to tell his men in his command in
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marching prisoners in groups of 150 to Charleston along the present day Old State Road
261.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (The King's Highway is the by-way of old that ran from Charleston to Camden. It cut through the High Hills of the Santee, which was a hideout and way-point for Patriots under Sumter and Marion.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">General Sumter’s plantation, during the Revolution, was across from Nelson’s Ferry on the Santee River in Clarendon County. It now lies at the bottom of the man-made lake and is occupied by all sorts of marine life; including but not limited to the alligators. The closest that one can get to the site of the battle (short of scuba diving) is to explore the Santee National Wildlife Refuge. Fort Watson is nearby and offers the history buff even more to discover and learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Red Coat guard of 38 soldiers rested and stacked their arms for the night, feeling confident in their wins against Gates and Sumter and believing the area was secure so far behind the lines of conflict. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marion
and Major Hugh Horry approached the house on August 25th. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A sentry fired a shot and the skirmish
commenced with Horry and his men taking the front of the house while Marion and
his men rushed the rear.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the smoke
cleared and the yelling had stopped, 22 British were killed or captured.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However,
these Continental soldiers of the Maryland and Delaware lines were not willing
to be freed. Marion and his men must
have been dumfounded when these men chose to continue as prisoners. Most of these soldiers, despite the mismanagement of General Gates, had fought bravely under
DeKalb at Camden. In a letter to Governor
Rutledge, General Otho Williams would write,
“Of the 150 men retaken by Marion only about 60 rejoined their corps --
some were sick but most of them just departed."</span></span></span><br />
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These were times that tested men’s souls. Slavery or Liberty. Servitude or Freedom. Serfdom or self-government. These hung in the balance in August of 1780
in South Carolina. Here, high minded speeches and thoughts of Freedom met
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Along the back-roads over grown and passed by, the government that we now take for granted was born
in the cauldron of despair. Patriot
fervor waned at the fall of Charleston, and was almost snuffed out at the defeat at Camden. All along the frontier (at Ninety Six, Camden, Cheraw, Hanging Rock, and Rocky Mount) loyalists were swooning over the arrival of
Cornwallis, Tarleton, Wemyss and Ferguson. Many a
Patriot quit and resigned themselves to the fate of the conflict. Merchants in Charleston and Savannah were
filling their coffers with English coin from British contracts. The Southern Strategy was working and it
would be a matter of time before Britain was master of the colonies once more.</div>
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Sumter had escaped. A secret army
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ferguson was
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At the Battle of Wofford’s Iron Works (Spartanburg) on
August 8, 1780 American Col. Isaac Shelby and his frontiersmen played cat and
mouse with Cornwallis’ man and eluded his British force with taunts and jeers on
a hillside out of musket range<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span> </span></span>This
came just a little over a week after Loyalists surrendered to Col. Shelby’s
Indian fighters at Thicketty Fort without firing a shot.</div>
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That frustration would mount as on August 19th the Patriot bands
of warriors under Shelby, SC militia Col. James Williams and Patriot Col. Elijah
Clarke slipped in behind Ferguson's lines during a night-time ride and engaged
Loyalists at Musgrove Mill (present-day southern, Spartanburg County) that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The American Revolutionaries numbered about
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After halting in an open Indian field about a mile from the
Ford of the Enoree River, scouts were sent out to gain intelligence on the
enemy just before dawn. Shots were fired
and the scouts, though some wounded, made it back to camp and reported enemy
numbers to be over twice the anticipated force of 200.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Sometime during the night reinforcements, intended for Col.
Ferguson, had arrived at the British camp and were anticipating joining up with the left wing of the
Red Coat army on their march northward. Among
these in camp at Musgrove Mill were two hundred Provincials from New York under
the command of Colonel Alexander Innes. </span></div>
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was outnumbered, his horses were spent, and his enemy would be reinforced by Ferguson
soon.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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Shelby needed to draw again from his tactical skills forged
in the furnace of Indian wars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He chose
to fight. He ordered his men to build breastworks of fallen logs and brush
across the expanse of the open field in a rough semi-circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> His plan to use cover and concealment during the battle would equal the playing field to the benefit of his men, as the British would be attacking a more fortified position without cover of their own. </span>Shelby and his contingent of frontiersmen
under the bold Josiah Culbertson were on the right. Williams and his South Carolina
militia were in the center. Clarke’s courageous Georgia troops were on the
left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reserve troops were within earshot
and hidden nearby; while the horses were staged in the rear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up towards the British encampment</td></tr>
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British Colonel Innes urged his reluctant peers in the war
council to make haste and give fight to the rebel band who he had little regard
for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some in the council wished to finish their
breakfast and wait for Ferguson, but Innes was insistent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they made ready, Patriot Captain Inman and
25 men sallied in towards the King's camp and fired at the British from across the
river, enticing them to give chase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Innes’s whole force, save one hundred in reserve at the house, followed down and then up the hill on the heels of Inman and his party of Whigs; whom they believed represented the whole of the rebel band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Unknown to them, Josiah Culbertson's party were concealed on their flank as they moved up the hill.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2)</span> </span>The loyalists, answering the bugle calls,
drums and shouts of their leaders, formed up and advanced to within 70 yards of
the breastworks, bayonets at the ready.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Suddenly a deadly
accurate fire was unleashed at the British just when they had let out a “Huzzah
for King George!”</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">The attacking British
staggered but for a moment.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">They checked
their lines and resumed their march.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Disciplined
and steady, they came on with bayonet and determination.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">The Patriot riflemen were much slower in
their reloads than the British soldiers and their muskets. To make matters worse, the British cold steel was pressing
in. These anxious moments were observed by Shelby and Clarke and orders were given with haste.</span><br />
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of the riflemen who were being pressed hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this critical juncture,
Colonel Innes was killed by one of the Over the Mountain men and in the ensuing
moments the tide changed for the advancing British.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The frontiersmen let out an Indian war cry
and rushed into the fray of smoke and powder and into close quarter combat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The screams, the gun fire and the battle yell
of charging wild warriors were all mixed with the smoke that made it impossible
to see beyond 20 yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The loyalist
militia in front of Clarke gave way and began to fall back. Soon it was a full-blown retreat as
the British ran back down the road from which they had come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dead and wounded lay scattered along the
route as the Patriots were in hot pursuit and continuing to engage their enemy, even into the river ford.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the Tories, still bold despite the retreat, decided
to drop his trousers and show his mooned cheeks to his pursuers as he made his way
up the opposite hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was paid in
full with a bullet to his pasty white backside and carried off in shame and
discomfort.<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(3)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In just about an hour of heavy fighting the smoke clears,
and Shelby is the victor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> He has now beat the enemy three times in the field under less than favorable conditions, all within 3 weeks time. </span><br />
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The victory is
short lived as an express rider comes in from Colonel Davie at the Waxhaws
informing the victors of the defeat of Gates at Camden, SC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Davie, who was riding to help in the battle
at Camden, had observed Gates fleeing northward. Davie adjusted his own orders and turned back. He then prudently sent
out messages to leaders still in the field, to include Thomas Sumter and Shelby's command structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Sumter suffers defeat at Fishing Creek above Great Falls, SC and flees to Charlotte. </span>Shelby and his army dispersed and seemingly vaporize into the mountains with their prisoners above present day Rutherford, NC. The reality is Shelby would not let them rest till they were safely in the mountain passes and many of his warriors were starving and fatigued when they got home.<br />
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and Cornwallis has his sights set on Charlotte and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cornwallis sends Ferguson into the mountains where he imprudently threatens to lay waste to Scots-Irish Patriot homes and hang their leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1)<u>King’s Mountain and It’s Heroes: History of the Battle
of King’s Mountain, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 1780, and the Events Which Led to
It</u>, Draper, Allaire<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2)http://sc_tories.tripod.com/battle_of_musgrove_mill.htm</span></div>
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-60760460503125708122018-08-08T06:34:00.001-07:002018-08-08T12:23:37.297-07:00Fishing Creek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On August 15, 1780, the day before Camden fell, Col. Sumter
won at Cary’s Fort. Guarding the Wateree
crossing, Cary’s Fort was located on the west side of the Wateree River in the
general area of where I-20 crosses it. After the battle “The Gamecock” Sumter
had the task of transporting 100 prisoners, over 40 wagons loaded with supplies
and 300 head of cattle (and sheep) north towards the State line. Just on the other side of the river the Battle
of Camden raged and was lost by Gates. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sumter was in a precarious situation and he posted a rear
guard as they slowly made their way towards Charlotte, hoping to go undetected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Tarleton was sent by Lord Cornwallis to
find his captured Loyalist men and supplies. Soon Tarleton and his Dragoons were
able to observe Sumter’s camp fires from across the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They caught up with them on August 18, 1780 just
north of the present-day Fishing Creek Dam off Hwy 21 in Chester County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sumter had managed to travel roughly 40 miles
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Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton’s Dragoons were in no mood to play
nice. They had been riding, marching and fighting for days without rest when
they came upon Sumter’s force of over 800 men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now they rode two to a horse to bring enough men to the fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aided by information from two Tory ladies, Tarleton
was able to know Sumter’s location and disposition of the rebel forces. These
ladies of the Crown also informed him of alternate avenues of approach to the Whig
camp by way of some secondary roads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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he had let his guard down</b>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sumter
had stopped to rest in the rolling green hills along the banks of the Catawba river
just above the Great Falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Patriot
force had stacked their arms around noon and were bathing, eating, shaving and
foraging. Indeed, some of the militia had found the rum in the wagons and were
too drunk to fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of Sumter’s men guarding
the rear approach of the Patriot force were found and killed by saber, without
drawing attention to the British Legion’s presence. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tarleton, extremely outnumbered, boldly charged with his 100
mounted dragoons, augmented with but 60 foot soldiers. Whether by design, wisdom
or chance he had played upon the psychology of the Patriot loss at Camden just two
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The cows and sheep grazed away as the human conflict
flared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sumter was caught by surprise as
he was observed sleeping when the battle commenced. Sumter quickly took in the
situation and yelled, "Let every man take care of himself!” Leaving his coat and
boots behind he jumped on an unsaddled wagon horse and rode out of camp in a
flash. Riding furiously through the woods he was knocked from the horse by a low
hanging limb and lay unconscious for some time after the battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Col. Bratton and a small band of Partisans fought
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Tarleton quickly inherited the shackles of
baggage and livestock that Sumter had been relieved of. He could not pursue his
foe for fear of losing that which he had just liberated. He turned his
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With Gates and Sumter whipped in a matter of days and all
his supplies intact, Cornwallis felt pretty confident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The British army seemed invincible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But rumors were in the air of a Loyalist
defeat to the west. It was an omen that would haunt Cornwallis and a harbinger
of things to come!<o:p></o:p><br />
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https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/800818-fishing-creek/<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina</u>,
John C. Parker<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain</u>, Randell Jones
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<u>History of the Upper Country of S.C.,</u> Logan<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-88868330150661236372018-08-04T11:04:00.000-07:002018-08-05T02:28:01.794-07:00Heroines of the Upstate Revolution<br />
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<b>P</b>erhaps the story of British occupation is best taught
through the perils of the women on the home front, especially those of the frontier
settlements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forced to reckon with Indian
raids and bands of outlaws, these were not the women of the genteel plantations
in the parishes outside of Charleston along the Cooper, Ashley, Stono, and
Wando rivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These women grew up in
households that had survived and flourished in that dangerous land of the
upstate of South Carolina far away from law and order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their lives had been forged in the fire of threats and the cold reality
of life and death struggles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, when
the British came with more of the same, is it any wonder that these bold women
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<b>Martha Bratton</b> stared down a sickle meant for her head and
calmly spoke in defiance as the Red Coats demanded information about her
husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The farm estate located off Hwy
321 south of York, SC was situated in the rolling green hills of the piedmont. Forests
and brooks were boundaries of fields and tilled soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wagon road, strewn with pine needles and
oak leaves, wound down and then up again, across a good creek to the front of
her small house in the back country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Foot paths were worn along deer trails through the lush green canopies to neighbors and friends in this
hamlet of partisan families. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
along one of these hidden trails that word got to her husband nearby and he, and his militia,
ambushed Captain Christian Huck (The Swearing Captain) at the Williamson’
homestead and caused the British troop to regret their threats upon his
wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This stand against Huck and his
band put an end to a series of attacks in Chester and York counties where several
homes were burned and many people from the community had been killed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On another occasion it is said that she blew
up gun powder stored on her property and boldly proclaimed to the British, who
were riding up, that she had done it in defense of her country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Kate Barry</b> was said to have been flogged by a Tory named
Elliott, for not revealing where her Patriot husband was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On her family farm at Walnut Grove in
Spartanburg County she was an accomplished rider of horse and a pious
Presbyterian. Her maiden name of Moore is still a namesake in the community to
this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was married in 1767 at 15
years of age to Andrew Barry, who had been a community magistrate and Captain in
the local militia before the war with England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Legend has it that she rode as a scout on horseback and swam swollen
rivers in the dark of night to carry word of British troop movements to the Colonials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her 20s during the time of the revolution,
she was the darling of her husband’s band of Rangers. She was instrumental in
rallying the Patriot militia to assist General Morgan at Cowpens where the
battle was won.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of the war
her husband’s troop wanted justice for their lady of Liberty and urged Captain
Barry to seek retribution against the man who had whipped her. He found Elliott
hiding under a bed and, in the end, dropped him to the floor with a three-legged
stool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then walked away proclaiming, “I
am satisfied, I will not take his life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kate and Captain Barry raised their children near her Walnut Grove after
the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of her descendants is Amanda
Blake (Miss Kitty) from the TV show “Gunsmoke”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Mary Dillard</b>, in like manner, is said to have swam the
Enoree river to warn General Sumter of the British order of attack at the
Battle of Blackstock’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This information
came to her after she had been forced to feed the British troops invading her
home. Perhaps because she was just a small woman who stayed in the background
or because the British felt strength and security in their numbers, talk of the
impending order of battle flowed freely at the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Realizing the information was vital and the
lives of her family were in peril, she snuck away in the night from the farm
and rode bareback on her horse to General Sumter’s camp, 20 miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her toddler child had to be tied to the
bedpost while she ran off into the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the battle it is reported that she untethered the British horses
and marched them away from their masters and into the Patriot camp, thus
further hampering the Red Coat plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
the defeat Tarleton believes the battle was lost because of a woman that was
seen spying on them across the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fearing
for her children’s safety, she came home to find the house burned, though the children
had been taken to the neighbor. The burned home was a scene that would repeat
itself before the wars end and would place an exclamation point on the
hardships of the times.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Dicey Langston</b>,15 years of age, in the dead of night walked and
ran five miles and crossed a swollen river to warn her brother’s Patriot band
that Loyalist Bill Cunningham was in the area looking to kill them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laurens County was a loyalist stronghold and
she and her aging father were surrounded by Tory neighbors always watchful for
her Patriot brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever the fierce
one, she was retrieving a gun hid for her brother when men showed up to the
house claiming to be of his company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
she brought the rifle, she demanded the countersign given by her brother to
test the validity of the men’s claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When they dithered and made a comment that it was too late as she had
the gun in hand, she quickly cocked the rifle and boldly threatened the
men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The countersign was given, and
laughter washed away the tense and potentially deadly encounter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later she bravely stood in front of a British
pistol that was meant for her ailing father and pled for her father’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honest and brave, she was protector and Patriot
in a time when youth and adulthood mixed at an early age.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These women Patriots lived a life in the back country of the
Upstate of South Carolina where their whole families could be snuffed out by
the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They walked a delicate line as daughters,
wives, mothers, house keepers, cooks and community members that, in many cases
was as dangerous as their Patriot husbands and brothers faced on the field of
battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least their men-folk had a
fighting chance without the encumbrances of toddlers at their feet, questionable
neighbors and opposing armies that come to call.</div>
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In the bloody civil war of the Revolution in South Carolina,
sides had to be chosen and the families at the homestead were often the
victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These women, and the women like
them whose stories were never told, chose not to play the victim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They chose independence over servitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They chose to fight! Freedom Reigns!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://newacquisitionmilitia.com/christian-huck-biography/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina</u>,
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of
King’s Mountain, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It</u>,
Lyman Draper and Anthony Allaire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the description of General Gates by his subordinates at the battles at
Saratoga. Indeed, Benedict Arnold’s ultimate treason of the American cause had
much to do with his dissatisfaction of General Horatio Gates; who he called <span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">‘the greatest poltroon in the world and many other genteel
qualifications.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Major General Nathaniel
Greene would write a similar, eloquent negative concerning Gates. And even
though Greene went on to praise Generals Lincoln and Benedict Arnold for the
successes in that Northern theater, it was now the summer of 1780 and things
had changed since the war had moved south. Lincoln had lost Charleston and
Arnold was convalescing from his wounds and planning treason at West Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gates, who had been honored with accolades
from the new Congress, was Washington’s choice to counter the enemy’s advance
in the south.</span></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <sup>(1)</sup></span> <span style="font-family: "roboto" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">So General Gates marched from the
area of Greensboro, NC on July 25, 1780 with intentions to retake Camden, 150
miles to the south. Camden had become the staging area for General Cornwallis
in the Southern theater of the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was only a month and a half since Charleston had fallen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gates took over General DeKalb’s command and
added troops that trickled in as they marched over the next 17 days. Many of these
troops had come tardy to Charleston, but now found themselves in a position to
avenge the loss of the “Holy City” of the South.</span><sup><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">(2)</span></sup><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">Gates took a more direct route against the advice of his
Generals, who wished a more westerly route.</span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;"> </span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">They counseled this to take advantage of a population more
favorable to the cause who could feed the troops along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could also avoid some swamps and marshes
that would slow them down. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">However, they marched
with supplies and baggage wagons across the Piedmont plain of the Carolinas
where the July sun and humid heat hung heavy on the head and shoulders of each
soldier. Green apples, molasses (instead of the usual rum) and bad food
combined to cause an epidemic of dysentery that swept through the ranks on the
eve of battle. <sup>(3)</sup> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">Then, Gates dithered and failed to follow up on
his skirmish with Lord Rawdon about 7 miles above Camden on August 11th, despite
his advantage of 4 to 1 odds in manpower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gates' vacillation allowed Cornwallis to come up 5 days later and the
two armies surprised each other at 2 a.m. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">Skirmishers were taken prisoner on both sides
and debriefed. Both armies realized they were face to face. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gates called another council of war seeking
input from his officers, but once more failed in his administration of a battle
plan by misplacing his militia on the battle lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">The Red Coats fixed bayonets, charged and
decimated the militia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cornwallis then
turned on the flank of the Continentals still fighting on the field under
DeKalb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DeKalb, a brave and noble
warrior who had fought with honors in Europe during the Seven Years War, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>received 11 wounds and was last seen fighting
bravely while surrounded by the Red Coat onslaught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cornwallis’ physicians cared for DeKalb and
he died a few days later in Camden. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #141414;">Though Gates would be credited by some as
attempting to rally the troops, his backside was seen fleeing the battle lines
while its decision was still in question. In an irony of war, Dekalb, whose
command was turned over to Gates weeks before the battle, was the one deserving
of honors. He was heard to declare while near death in the British camp, </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>"I thank you sir for your generous
sympathy, but I die the death I always prayed for: the death of a soldier
fighting for the rights of man."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(4)</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Retreat and more Foreign Patriots</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">French Lt. Col. Armand was at the head of a Patriot
cavalry contingent made up of Foreign volunteers, Hessian deserters and
Frenchmen. Remnants of other companies
joined up with him near the end of the
ignoble battle. He and his men fought a
rear-guard action and found themselves fending off an assault by Col. Banastre
Tarlton’s Green Dragoons just north of the main battlefield. As the Colonial army
attempted to make good their escape, Armand’s men stoutly gave battle to buy precious time
for the troops retreating north. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
scene of this rear-guard action is unceremoniously known only to have occurred
near the bridge over Grannies Quarter Creek on Flat Rock Rd. in Kershaw County,
SC.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Many of the final resting places of
the foreign soldiers who died in defense of our liberty are sadly unknown to
history and their remains were left in the fields and creek beds of the rural
landscapes of our South State.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Their
noble deeds known only to the Great Creator who, we pray, has given them due
credit for their defense of Freedom. </span><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;">(5)</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gates was humbled at Camden and labeled a coward
by many.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Lt. Colonel Armand remarked </span><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“I
will not say that we have been betrayed, but if it had been the purpose of the
general to sacrifice his army, what could he have done more effectually to have
answered that purpose.”</span>(6)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cornwallis basked in the glory of what he
thought was the last full measure of large resistance in South Carolina. As the Continental Army was defeated at Charleston and now at Camden, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he set his sights on Charlotte. His troops
were left with chasing the “Gamecock” Sumter and the “Swamp Fox” Marion.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Cornwallis contented himself in believing
that these partisan bands were inconsequential in the whole.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, Cornwallis had now pushed up against the
Catawba River Valley, and </span><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>things were about to change in 52 days. Freedom Reigns!</b></i></div>
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</span></span><a href="http://www.historynet.com/benedict-arnold-general-in-the-battle-of-saratoga.htm" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">http://www.historynet.com/benedict-arnold-general-in-the-battle-of-saratoga.htm</a> </div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u>King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: History of
the Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 1780, and the Events
Which Led to It</u>, Draper and Allaire<o:p></o:p></div>
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(4) <u>The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War</u>, Mason Weems<br />
(5) <u>Parkers Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina</u>, John C. Parker<br />
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Captain Johnson had a hard time wrestling Tory Captain Patrick
Moore into submission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moore and his
Loyalist sympathizers had been on the run from their defeat at Ramsour’s Mill
near Lincolnton, NC for 12 days and were not too willing to fall into the hands
of these Liberty Men. At six foot seven inches tall<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1), </span>Moore was giving his
fair share and was able to open up multiple cuts on Johnson’s head and thumb. Despite
it all, Captain Johnson was hauling him in towards the rest of the Patriot contingent.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spilled blood; however, got into the
Johnson’s powder and he misfired as reinforcements arrived for the Loyalist
leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Johnson retreats through
the bushes, Captain Moore escapes and is able to make it home on Thicketty Creek,
outside of Gaffney, SC. <span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2) </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Captain Moore had reinforced a fort there and commanded a body
of loyalist men with good stores of weaponry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Undaunted by his near fatal encounter with Johnson, Moore’s command had
become a staging point for the Tories to launch raiding parties on the Patriot
homes and farms in the back country. So much so that it raised the ire of not
only General Sumter in South Carolina, but also Col. McDowell from NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both were in the area of conflict attempting
to win and subdue the land for the cause. Independently they had both sent out
warriors to attack Fort Thicketty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elijah
Clarke, Isaac Shelby, Andrew Hampton and Charles Robertson met and combined their
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The fort itself was surrounded by abatis that made it difficult
to approach without impaling oneself on the pointed timbers. Similar structures were used at the star fort
at Ninety-Six and other conflict areas. Fort Thicketty sat upon a rise above
the creek and had loopholes in the walls from which to fire at the enemy from
cover. To overcome even a crude abatis takes coordination and firepower under
extreme exposure. To make offensive
operations against the fort even worse, the fort had only one opening by which
to enter the enclosure. Moore’s men were
more than confident that they could repel the forces that approached their bastion
in the back country.<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;">(3)</span></div>
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Colonel Shelby and his men of daring were not ones to shrink
from a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shelby arrived at the fort
on July 26, 1780 and sent word to Moore to surrender at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moore refused, and he and his Tory militia steeled
their nerves for the fight. Col. Shelby then arrayed all 600 of his men into firing positions
in a way that was meant to intimidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
along the wood line surrounding the fort, Moore and his militia observed the
Liberty Men step out with their rifles and storied hunting shirts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly, they had the set jaws and determination
of men used to conflict on the Indian frontier and mimicked their leader as
they put on a show of force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shelby,
again, called out for a parley with Moore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moore assured his men, as he left out for the discussion of terms, that
he would not be surrendering and that he intended to fight. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps it was his recent brush with death at the hands of
some of these same men outside of Lincolnton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or perhaps it was his subsequent near-death experience near the Wofford’s
Iron works at the hands of Captain Johnson not 24 days removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or perhaps it was a combination of so many
seasoned fighting men standing before Moore’s little fort of friends and
neighbors. Whatever the single or combination of reasons, Captain Moore agreed
to surrender the fort if his men were spared and paroled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the dismay of his men, the Loyalist
Captain walked back to the fort under Patriot escort and turned the fort over
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Col. Shelby’s ruse worked, and the Sons of Liberty were
fortunate, indeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the stores of
weaponry were found ready muskets loaded with “buck and ball” at the gun ports
of the fort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had Captain Moore fought it
out, Colonel Shelby may have been hard pressed to win without cannon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very least he would have paid dearly
with the lives of his men to win the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Moore’s capitulation without
a fight saved many lives that day on both sides, but he held the title of coward
in the eyes of his superiors in General Cornwallis’ camp.<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2, Ibid)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The month was a sore one for the British in the upstate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having taken Charleston, the British had set
their sights on the upcountry, but suffered some setbacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lt. Col. Turnbull wrote Cornwallis about his Ramsour’s
Mill investigation and chastised the Loyalist timing at Lincolnton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also warned of the Scots Irish, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><i>"As for the majority Scots-Irish inhabitants of the </i></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i>Catawba River Valley,"</i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">
Turnbull wrote: <i>"I wish I could say something in their favor. I believe
them to be the worst of creation - and nothing will bring them to reason but severity.”</i></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(4)</span><sup><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramsour%27s_Mill#cite_note-William-10"></a>
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But Cornwallis did not understand what the threat in this quarter really was. He was on the
move and was concentrated on the Continental army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a destiny with Gates at Camden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His response for the left flank of his army
was to send Major Patrick Ferguson. He would write later, after the blinders were off, "A numerous and unexpected enemy came from the mountains. As they had good horses, their movements were rapid."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(3,ibid)</span></div>
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coming! </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>And for the next 72 days
Liberty was in question. Freedom Reigns!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mountain and It’s Heroes:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Battle of
King’s Mountain, October 7<sup>Th</sup>, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It,</span></u><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Lyman Copeland
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Parker Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Constant Alarm: The Battle of Ramsour’s Mill and Partisan Divisions in the
Carolina Backcountry Communities During the American Revolution, </span></u><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Austin
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-55977331078329206082018-07-24T21:11:00.001-07:002018-08-27T14:25:42.104-07:00The Ulster Scots of the Revolution in the Carolinas and Virginia.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>They came in droves, as if the flood gates had opened on
some Scots Irish dam across the sea.</b> With their recent inclusion into the
United Kingdom they sought freedom and land in the British colonies as new
British subjects. They disembarked at New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Charleston. They pooled money and families together and set out on the Great
Wagon Road in their Conestoga wagons. Different from the planters of the Pee
Dee and Coastal regions, they preferred the Piedmont and Mountains of Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina. Men of force and iron were needed in this
wild unsettled region that was a buffer between the Indians of the upstate and
the gentry of the sandy regions. The wilderness filled up with families of
hardy stock, willing to forge a living in the outer territory of the new
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When the French and Indian War broke out in 1756, the
British treated these stout immigrants with the same disdain that their
grandparents and parents had been treated in Scotland and Ireland…not as
equals, but as second-class citizens. All the while they were expecte<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">d to die
for the mother country in preservation of the </span>empire. And they beat back the
French and the Indians and forced their capitulation in the name of the Crown,
but they did not win their full measure of citizenship.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By 1776 generations of Ulster Scots lived free
and without encumbrances from the empire seat so far away. Petitions to
government for redress against grievances were met with either unrighteous force
or general apathy, and never timely. The Empire had stretched beyond the limits
of the infrastructure of its government.
New Bern, Charleston and Williamsburg were a long way from the Holston
river valley or the Yadkin, Broad and Catawba rivers in Virginia and the
Carolinas. This distance only added to the bad experiences of the governed concerning
the government. </span></span></div>
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And grievance upon grievance mounted year after year until
an enlightened leadership made a stand against the tyranny. Across the colonies the conversations turned to common
rights and common ideas of government…self-government. And though it was based
on a natural law known in the breasts of every free man, they were radical in
terms of sitting governments in world history. The Scots Irish had learned to
live and flourish on their own in terms of self-government with the moral
compass of these natural laws. They, as a people, understood the building
blocks of a civil society and recognized when a form of government was not
working and had become tyrannical. These,
after-all, were the literate, pious and independent children of the great
Scottish Enlightenment.<br />
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And all the remonstrations still could have been for naught,
and these men and women of the empire would have stayed willingly as faithful
subjects, had the King and his generals acted rightfully. Instead, the British
came with threats to hang the leaders of the Ulster Scots and lay waste to
their towns with fire and sword unless they came and took an oath to this King
who was so far away. This same King that bribed the Cherokee to wage war on the
settlements from Spartanburg to Nolichucky. The King’s men burned houses, arrested
clergy, and confiscated livestock without due payment. British Officers
enlisted the local thieves as soldiers and gave them authority to legally ply
their formerly illegal trade. Chaos was fomented by the very government that
wanted their allegiance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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with Colonel Isaac Shelby and their mere presence forced a capitulation without
a shot being fired. At Musgrove Mill in Spartanburg County, South Carolina they
combined forces and routed the British with ease. At Kings Mountain, near the
North and South Carolina State line, they combined forces again with
independent commands, surrounded and obliterated one third of the standing
British army in the Carolinas. And at Cowpens they helped the Continental army
win the day and decimate still more of Cornwallis’ standing army, thereby
starting the chain of events that ended the war and established a new nation.</span></span></div>
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We can still walk where the intrepid heroes once raised
rifle and saber in defense of Liberty. On the trails and roads of old we can
stroll under the canopies of the white oak and tulip poplar while our ankles
brush by the green ferns along the way. Squirrels and fox, deer and owl, all
co-exist on these sacred grounds. The whispers of the wind are all that is left
of those awful conflicts, save the man-made markers and graves that dot the anointed
landscape. Thankfully we are fortunate to be able to reflect upon these noble
deeds of men and women who may have been poor in terms of wealth, but were rich
in their determination to live free.<br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><i>Protected now from the conquest of civilization’s steady roll,</i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">where man made monuments stand with the beauty of nature’s soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Envision yourself amid the battle cries and smoke while charging into
the fray…<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but remember dear friend,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you do so with liberty won on that hallowed day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Eric K. Barnes<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sources for this article include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>The Winning of the West</u>, Theodore Roosevelt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution in the Carolinas
and Georgia</u>, Benson J. Lossing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>King’s Mountain and It’s Heroes: History of the Battle of
King’s Mountain, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It,</u>
Lyman C. Draper and Anthony Allaire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>History of the Upper Country of S.C.</u>, John H. Logan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain</u>, Randell
Jones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina</u>,
John C. Parker Jr.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-24143336073511806132018-07-22T19:15:00.000-07:002018-07-26T09:54:14.410-07:00Hanging Rock<div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_33h" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;">
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<b>Col. William Davie yelled to the British at Hanging Rock in Lancaster county, "Soldiers, if you value your lives, ground your arms, and officers surrender at once!"</b> They didn't. He won. He later harassed Cornwallis' 2000 man army in the streets of Charlotte with only 150 cavalry, and was probably the reason Charlotte was called a "Hornet's Nest." Soldier, lawyer, future NC Governor and co-founder of UNC Chapel Hill, he lived a bold and intrepid life of service so that we could be free. Freedom reigns!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">Parker's Guide to the American Revolutionary War in South Carolina</u><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: 400;">, John C. Parker Jr.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">A mass grave in Lancaster,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> South Carolina</span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i> entombs 113 men from Virginia who died at the hands of British soldiers!</i></b> Eyewitnesses said the Virginians were throwing down their guns and trying to surrender when the British soldiers, led by Colonel Tarleton, began hacking them to death with their swords. Another 150 men were treated for severe injuries in a nearby church…many not surviving the week. Patriot Colonel Buford admits defeat. Britain claims victory over South Carolina. Ulster Scots from the upstate and mountains are incensed and vow to hold the lobster backs accountable. History reveals they made true on their word within the year. You can find this site off of Hwy. 522 in Lancaster County. Freedom Reigns! </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">Parker's Guide to the American Revolutionary War in South Carolina</u><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: 400;">, John C. Parker Jr.</span></b></div>
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History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-60242561411790252342018-07-22T16:21:00.001-07:002018-07-22T19:57:44.406-07:00Rev. Martin Hwy 97 Chester Cnty <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-08OnZMoKCFc/W1UQMHJuU7I/AAAAAAAAANI/xsqEm3la8J0G8CeOi8Sa1RelV49gCI-JwCLcBGAs/s1600/Covenenter%2BChurch%2Bmarker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="209" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-08OnZMoKCFc/W1UQMHJuU7I/AAAAAAAAANI/xsqEm3la8J0G8CeOi8Sa1RelV49gCI-JwCLcBGAs/s1600/Covenenter%2BChurch%2Bmarker.jpg" /></a><br />
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #29303b; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;">"My hearers," he said, </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">in his broad Scotch-Irish dialect</span></strong><span style="float: none;">— "talk and angry words will do no good. We must fight!"</span></i><br />
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Highway 97 in York and Chester counties was part of the New Acquisition
District during the revolutionary war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
find stories of valor and intrigue dotting the various communities along that
holy thoroughfare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reverend William Martin
preached a sermon at the Covenenter Meeting house in 1780 that was considered a
rallying cry to the locals to rise up against the British occupation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming on the heals of the massacre of Col.
Buford in the Waxhaws on May 29, 1780 by British Col. Tarleton, Reverend Martin
gave a sermon to a large and angry crowd, <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> "As your pastor—in preparing a
discourse suited to this time of trial—I have sought for all light, examined
the Scriptures and other helps in ancient and modern history, and have
considered especially the controversy between the United Colonies and the
mother country. Sorely have our countrymen been dealt with, till forced to the
declaration of their independence—and the pledge of their lives and sacred
honor to support it. </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Our forefathers in Scotland made a similar one,
and maintained that declaration with their lives;</span></strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> it is now our
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #29303b; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">"Go see,"
he cried— "the tender mercies of Great Britain! In that church you may
find men, though still alive, hacked out of the very semblance of humanity:
some deprived of their arms—mutilated trunks: some with one arm or leg, and
some with both legs cut off. </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Is not this cruelty a parallel to the history
of our Scottish fathers, driven from their conventicles, hunted like wild
beasts? </span></strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Behold the godly youth, James Nesbit—chased for days by the
British for the crime of being seen on his knees upon the Sabbath
morning!" </span></i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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or self defense? </b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">You would be hard pressed to second guess a man like Josiah
Culbertson. A Hunter and tracker, he would join one Patriot band and then another as a situation arose. At times he served under Col Roebuck's Spartan Regiment and </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Col. Shelby’s “Over the Mountain Men." He was a true Son of Liberty.
He was daring, fearless and direct. Sam Brown, on the other hand, was the
person who carried off Culbertson’s father-in-law and two sons to the British soon
after the fall of Charleston. Now Sam Brown was back again and threatening Culbertson’s
wife while the Major was in the field. Whether Brown was acting at the behest
of British Colonel Ferguson or on his own, the intent was clear that danger to
the Culbertsons was imminent at the hands of this scoundrel. Upon hearing the facts
of the altercation from her very lips, the Major vowed to put an end to Brown’s
terrorism on his family. Culbertson tracked him down and killed him at a
distance of two hundred yards near Morris Bridge Road, Spartanburg County (near present day I-26). Another
Loyalist, upon hearing of the shooting, made bold threats to avenge Brown’s
death. Such is the way of a lawless environment in a civil war, where nothing
is civil. They met at the Green Spring near the end of what is now a private drive
called Glendarosa on August 8, 1780. Both took aim with their rifles;
Culbertson was the one who walked away with ne’er a scratch. The Tory was left
at room temperature on the banks of that lonely creek.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There was no law, judge
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When asked his name Noah replied, <b>“Hampton.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enraged, <b>“they cursed him for a Rebel, and
ran him through with a bayonet.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1)</span> </span>Yet the
British were having the worst of this running battle from July 12-16, 1780.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loyalists Captain James Dunlap ran into the Hampton’s,
Capt. John Jones and other Patriots under General McDowell in and around Landrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Night raids were made by both sides with
success, but in the end, it was Dunlap that was fleeing for safety on a wild race
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Faint markers of these skirmishes dot the upstate as civilization
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invaded these blood-stained landscapes and most of their secrets are lost to
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the inquiring minds; though,
there are still some reverent moments of thankfulness found in finding just the
area of these life and death conflicts where freedom was in the balance. Freedom Reigns!<o:p></o:p></div>
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they made for slavery.” Jean Gu</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">é</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">henno,
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<br />History Man 1781http://www.blogger.com/profile/11303429128238217642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534615623315465661.post-63146921719449195212018-07-13T14:47:00.000-07:002018-07-22T19:23:22.087-07:00Fort Charlotte to Ninety Six July 12-17, 1775<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Victory thwarted by treachery and deceit in July of 1775!</b> Patriot Major James Mayson's men successfully snatch the gunpowder and supplies from Fort Charlotte (Savannah River) on the 12th. But they lose it 5 days later when the militia at Ninety Six turn back to the Crown. Mayson's men march into Ninety Six and are forced to surrender to those who were thought to be Patriots! William Cunningham, the nephew of Loyalist General Robert Cunningham, is in the Patriot militia with Mayson. William would later turn out to be a turncoat and become a bloodthirsty murderer by war's end.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1)(2)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <b>Freedom Reigns!</b></span><br />
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commit?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no one happy in
Happy Valley, NC as Tom Dooley (Dula) is last seen on the back of a wagon,
pickin’ a banjo and heading for Statesville to meet his Hangman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Word on the street is that Laura Foster was
killed by one of Tom Dooley’s other women; possibly Anne Foster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That “word on the street” never made a
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The events surrounding this murder just after the Civil War
galvanized the small and isolated community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happy Valley was anything but…Happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The microscope of public scrutiny revealed a lover’s triangle with a
twist of STDs. It was discovered that Tom had more than two lovers in the
community that could have given him syphilis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His anxiety led him to make heated and inflammatory statements that were
used against him in trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, no one
keeps a secret better than a spurned lover. It is rumored that Laura Foster was
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Today the truth is but a whisper among the old trees in this
beautiful corner of the North State. The Kingston Trio immortalized the tale in
their 1958 hit song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lonely grave
can be seen, still, off of NC Highway 268 in Happy Valley (between Caldwell and
Wilkes Counties).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small white fence guards the final resting
place of Laura Foster in a field across from a stone marker erected by the Woodmen
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