Saluda County’s WWII Dead

After the slaughter at Clouds Creek on that November morning, William Cunningham and his three hundred Loyalist horsemen rode away from the Carter’s Cabin where twenty-eight Patriot militiamen lay dead. Cunningham’s column moved north through the pine woods, their horses’ hooves churning the red clay of the Ninety-Six District. They had come for revenge, and…

The bloody autumn air of late 1781 carried the scent of woodsmoke and turned earth across the rolling hills of Mount Willing, South Carolina. Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown, but in the backcountry the war had only grown more bitter – and more personal. Major William Cunningham’s Loyalist scouts—about three hundred strong. Many of them…