Journal Articles
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…