Saluda History

Saluda County’s WWII Dead

ByMuseum Archives June 3, 2024June 3, 2024

All gave some; some gave all…

WILLIAM M. ABLE

JEFFERSON C. ANDERSON

GEORGE P. BERRY

MARTIN L. BERRY

LEON BOATWRIGHT

GEORGE W. CHAPMAN

ROBERT E. CHANEY

ROBERT C. CLOER

JOHNNIE M. MCDANIEL

JOHN A. DAVIS

RICHARD F. DORN

STEVEN DUNCAN

EDWARD ENGLISH

ALVIN ETHEREDGE

GUY D. FALLOW

ANDREW T. FORCE

BEDFORD H. FORREST

JAMES O. FORREST

JACOB FRAZIER, JR.

ERNEST E. GUIN

HAROLD F. HOLLEY

WILLIAM M. HOLLOWAY

JOE D. JENNINGS

ANDREW JORDAN

WILLIAM JORDAN

SPANN D. LAKE

CARL LONG, JR.

ARNOLD B. LORICK

MORRIS MATTHEWS

IRA J. MCCARTY

FRED MCDOWELL

NATHERN T. MILLER

HARVEY H. MILLER

HASKEL MILLER

HARRY E. MITCHELL

ROBERT MITCHELL

JOE W. PADGETT

EDWARD B. POWE

HERMAN D. POWELL

SIM RIDLEHOOVER

ROBERT H. RODGERS

CLAUDE ROTHELLE, JR.

GRADY ROWE

SETH P. SCURRY

CARROLL F. SALTER

CALVIN R. SHEALY

PETER SIMMONS

JOHN B. SNELGROVE

HUGH A. STEVENSON

ROY WARREN

GUY R. WEBB, JR.

A. CURTIS WRIGHT

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Epilogue: William Butler – Musings of an Old Man in his Garden
ByAmy Potts April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

Some say the war ended badly for my family. I say it ended badly for William Cunningham, who lived, fueled by hate, and died on a distant island before reaching the age of thirty. He left behind no one and nothing – except a legacy of blood. To my thinking, the war brought my family…

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Part 5: Seeds of Rebellion – The Regulator Movement
ByAmy Potts January 31, 2026March 10, 2026

The Cherokee war left a vacuum in the backcountry, and from that vacuum grew the Regulator movement. The “Regulators” were ordinary settlers—farmers, traders, and veterans of the Cherokee War—who banded together to suppress cattle thieves, bandits, and petty tyrants who preyed on isolated homesteads. Figures such as Thomas Sumter, Richard Richardson, and Joseph Kershaw became…

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Part 17: The Southern Campaign
ByAmy Potts March 29, 2026April 3, 2026

In the summer of 1780, only a few short months after the victory at Charles Town, the hopes of the British high command turned to the South as the key to crushing the American Revolution. General Lord Cornwallis was the principal British field commander of the Continental Army in the Carolinas and, later, in Virginia. Cornwallis believed…

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Part 6: A Colony Turns Against Itself
ByAmy Potts February 1, 2026April 3, 2026

Backcountry settlers across Colonial South Carolina entered the early 1770s with a sense of relief and optimism. The courts and local justice they had so desperately needed was, at last, a reality. The new district seat of Ninety Six quickly began to grow as a small hub of trade and law, drawing farmers, traders, and…

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Part 7: Two Neighbors – Voices from the River
ByAmy Potts February 4, 2026April 3, 2026

Robert Cunningham, Tory I am Robert Cunningham, descended from Irish stock that crossed the sea to Virginia in the mid‑1600s. By 1769 several branches of our family had pushed into the backcountry of South Carolina, just north of the Saluda River, in the area that would one day be called Laurens County. I built a…

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Part 11: The Snow Campaign – a Woman Watches, Waits, and Worries
ByAmy Potts March 11, 2026March 16, 2026

I will never forget that cold, deadly winter of 1775-76. I felt so alone and so far away from my Virginia Home. I was born, Mary Foote in Prince William County. My first husband, William Simpson, died before we were one year married. But then, after months of terrible grief, I saw James Butler, and…

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