Journal Articles

Vol. 10 No. 1.0                                                                                           Spring 2014  William R. Reynolds, Jr.  The fall of Charles Town in May of 1780 was interesting in itself, but it led to a most intriguing action—mass parole of American Whig militiamen.  One of the more fascinating stories is that of then Colonel Andrew Pickens’ parole period.  The events surrounding…

by Robert Scott Davis         Lyman Copeland Draper (1815-1891) was born in Lockport, New York state; spent much of his adult life in Granville College, Ohio; Pontotoc, Mississippi; and Buffalo, New York; and came to permanently reside in Madison, Wisconsin.  For more than fifty years, he gathered, copied, or compiled hundreds of thousands of pages…

Stephen Heard (November 1, 1740 – November 15, 1815) was appointed the chief executive of Georgia on February 18, 1780 and served until Dr. Nathan Brownson was elected in August 1781.  Heard had fought in the French and Indian War and served as a colonel in the Georgia militia.  He was reportedly at the Battle…

February 15, 2014 – Clinton, SC – join SCAR in partnership with the Musgrove Mill State Historic Site for a program on The Revolutionary War in Laurens County, SC and Corps of Discovery to Revolutionary War sites in the area. The roads will be clear on Saturday and there is power on in Clinton.  We are on for Saturday. …

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   To experiment with crowdsourced annotation of historical documents, I offer this…