The Journal of the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution Vol. 12, No. 1.1 July 2018 Outfoxed – Marion’s Forces Dispersed by a Genius: Wambaw Bridge and Tidyman’s Plantation February 24-25, 1782 Charles B. Baxley, David Neilan, and C. Leon Harris © 2018 After Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 seemed…
Journal Articles
The Swamp Fox: Early Training
CAN PENSION APPLICATIONS BE TRUSTED?
by C. Leon Harris The short answer to the above question is, “Yes.” A slightly longer answer is that probably fewer than 4% of pension applicants made intentionally false statements about officers, engagements, and other details of importance to historians. The complete answer lies within a dark tale of dozens of worthy old soldiers…
Gen. Andrew Williamson’s Self Defense
This amazing letter was first located by Will Graves, annotated and published in SCAR in May of 2005.[1] Since we have learned so much about the geography of the Southern Campaigns and the particulars of the people in the last ten years, I thought it worthy of revisiting, updating the annotations, and slightly expanding. This…
Outfoxed – Marion’s Forces Dispersed by a Genius:
Wambaw Bridge and Tidyman’s Plantation February 24-25, 1782 Charles B. Baxley, David Neilan, and C. Leon Harris © 2016 After Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 seemed a foregone conclusion, but the war was not yet over in South Carolina. Before the British finally left on December 14, 1782 the state…
The Swamp Fox Rides Again:
Francis Marion’s War in South Carolina Thursday, October 27, 2016 to Sunday, October 30, 2016 Tour guided by Charles B. Baxley HQ: Georgetown, SC This tour is sold out but we have a waiting list for cancellations. Remember the stirring adventures of the “Swamp Fox” portrayed by Leslie Neilson in Walt Disney’s episodic series in the…
MASSACRE AT WAXHAWS: THE EVIDENCE FROM WOUNDS
C. Leon Harris Early in 1780 with almost the entire Virginia Continental Army surrounded at Charleston SC, Virginia hastily recruited some 350 soldiers to be sent as reinforcements. These troops, called the Third Virginia Detachment and attached to Gen. Charles Scott’s Second Continental Brigade, assembled at Petersburg under Col. Abraham Buford. On March 29 the…
Button Gwinnett & Lachlan McIntosh – Dueling in Savannah
Wayne Lynch For the first year after the Declaration of Independence, the feud between Gov. Button Gwinnett and Gen. Lachlan McIntosh dominated the political scene in the new state of Georgia. While Gwinnett is most known for his role as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a detailed look into the story demonstrates his almost…
Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Roundtable and Corps of Discovery
February 20, 2016 – Ebenezer, Ga. – Saturday the Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Roundtable will meet at the New Ebenezer Retreat Center. This morning Round Table will be followed by an afternoon Corps of Discovery walking tour. We will meet in the Retreat’s cafeteria from 10:00 am until about noon for presentations, break for a “Dutch Treat” lunch ($10) in the…
Dr. Irene Boland
On January 3, 2016 our community lost a faithful ally. Dr. Irene Boland of Winthrop University passed away. Irene spoke at the 2006 Gen. Nathanael Greene Symposium on Eutaw Springs on the influence of geology and topography on the battle. She was quite active in historical and geological research, blending her interests through projects like…