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…
The days here pass without measure — slow, airless days that grant a man too much time for thought. In the dim half-light, my mind drifts homeward, for memory is now my only liberty. Far beyond these walls lie the hills I love, the bright waters of the Little Saluda, and the familiar voices that…
The war had not yet swallowed the South Carolina backcountry whole, but by the autumn of 1776, its shadow already stretched long across the red-clay fields and pine ridges of the Ninety-Six District. As William Cunningham was fleeing south to hide in the swamps near Savannah, Captain James Butler Sr. and his seventeen-year-old son William…
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