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…
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SCAR Lifetime Achievement Awards
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….
The March of the “Scopholites”:
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…
“WEDDED TO MY SWORD”
Henry Lee in his Lee’s Legion uniform as depicted by artist Thomas Kelly Pauley. www.pauleyportraits.com The Life and Times of Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee April 26-28, 3013 – Greensboro, NC – Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution with the Sons of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina presents their dynamic, fun, and scholarly symposium on…
The Pennsylvania Longrifle in South Carolina during the American War of Independence
by James R. Mc Intyre[1] Haymaker and Humble Cheeks, two beautiful examples of the craftsman’s arts. The top “Pennsylvania” rifle was made in Virginia before 1774; the bottom rifle was made in the Kentucky region of Virginia in 1780. Photo by Mel Hankla. The Pennsylvania longrifle and the men who carried it occupy an ambiguous…