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Sgt. Maj. of the King’s American Regiment[1] This is an excerpt of a informative diary of a Loyalist non-commissioned officer in the American Revolution who saw action in the middle and southern states.  Teasing out the where, who and seminal events adds exciting details to studies of the War[2].   To experiment with crowdsourced annotation of historical documents, I offer this…

Charles B. Baxley  This letter, written from friend to friend, discusses the transportation of supplies and communications from Charleston to the British interior posts during the heart of the second rising in revolutionary South Carolina.  It reflects the reality of the difficulties the Americans have inflicted on the British: disrupting communications lines, pushing most of…

Excellent news.  Cypress Consulting’s Archaeologist. under the leadership of Dan Battle, have located and identified key locations of Georgia’s Battle of Brier Creek.  Part of the strategy for defining the location and footprint of the March 3, 1779 Battle of Brier Creek has been successful.  These assessments, however, are still in the early stages of development and  photographs of…

Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution awards John “Jack” Buchanan” a “Golden Gorget” Lifetime Achievement Award in Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Literature. David P. Reuwer, John “Jack” Buchanan and Charles B. Baxley present the award at the 2013 Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee Symposium in Greensboro, NC.  Double click on photo for full resolution image….

Failure and the King’s Cause on the Southern Revolutionary War Frontier by Robert Scott Davis A raid by the Florida Scout (Albert Bobbett, 1877) The American Revolution coincided with and became a part of an internal cultural, racial, class, and religious struggle in the South that began before and ended after the war.  An early…