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    1. [AMERICAN-REVOLUTION] Some growing Rev War Southern Campaign resources
    2. John Robertson
    3. There are several Rev War resources that continue to grow (some daily). All these are related to the Southern Campaign (sorry 'bout that!) Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution newsletter: http://southerncampaign.org/ A monthly (usually) online newsletter, loaded with freshly written articles on Southern Campaign history, archaeology, symposiums, fieldtrips and special interest groups. These are large files and require something like cable-modem or dsl. There are currently something like 24 issues online, amounting to 700 or 800 pages. You can find terse contents of all available articles at one of my pages (not requiring cable-modem or dsl) http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/scar.htm Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements: http://southerncampaign.org/pen/ This site has several hundred transcriptions of Southern Campaign pension statements in .pdf format, with an available search engine that will search full text of files on the site. Currently there are 6 or so added daily. You may submit your own transcriptions for posting to the site. This is a current "best kept secret" of Rev War online resources. This site is notable for the high quality of the transcriptions. These files may be downloaded or printed without restriction. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements: http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/rwpensions.htm This page (one of mine) is similar to, and complementary to, the above site. It provides links to Southern Campaign pension statements wherever they can be found on the internet. Keywords are provided for each (battles, units, other items that caught my eye) for almost all of them. E.g., you can do a crude search by using control-f and searching for cowpens and you can find all the pension apps for those in or near the Battle of Cowpens. If you use Firefox, you can select "Highlight all" and it will simultaneously highlight the word Cowpens where it appears on the large webpage. This site contains links (and only links) to all the transcriptions on the above site (a day or two behind) but is intended to include about an equal number from elsewhere on the internet. Unlike the above site, the quality of the transcriptions linked from this site varies widely. Online Library of the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/sc-texts.htm This page (and that above) share a common (top of each page) menu having a number of related topics. It contains a huge list of links to online full-text books and articles, somehow related to the Southern Campaign of the Rev War. No one (including me!) has ever read everything found there. Graves of Notables in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/graves/index.htm This is available from the same menu as the above two items. While not Rev War history, for the most part, it provides interesting insights in "whatever happened to ...?" There are some real surprises here. Links are provided, in most cases, to interactive map servers capable of providing driving directions to the sites. Map enthusiasts will find the map links for sites outside the US to be of interest. These sites will serve to introduce you to a sizeable and active informal community of professionals and equally serious amateurs engaged in ongoing fresh research in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. If you care to, all of them provide means whereby you may submit additional material or otherwise become involved.

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