John: I agree with you totally regarding the War in SC. One could spend their life just studying the War in SC and its effects on the citizens over a very long period of time. My ancestors fought in SC and when reading about the battles and highjackings along roads it was a nightmare painted in big, broad strokes. No one was safe anywhere. Fortunate were the folks living near the swamps and having a place to hideout. The loss early of Georgia opened SC to devastation from the Atlantic up the Savannah and into every region from sparsely settled villages to the towns. Reading about the War in SC is a difficult study when one visualizes the events. No words on the pages; images instead. Horrible, fearful images which our ancestors survived. It would be so interesting to be able to sit and listen to them tell their stories and how the war changed their lives forever. Had SC been lost to the British would we celebrate July Fourth today? Tree Mother ----- Original Message ----- From: John Robertson <jr@jrshelby.com> To: <AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [A-REV] Promotion of accurate historical study of Rev War > At 06:53 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >Out of curiousity what state do you live in? > > I live in NC, but very near SC. The comments are based primarily on SC, > but also partially on NC. > > SC is probably the one colony in which the Rev War was a border-to-border > event, since it was the only colony in which the Brits established inland > posts and sought (with considerable success) to provoke a civil war. SC > had more battle/skirmish sites than any other colony (I'll arm-wrestle on > this *privately*, if anyone is so inclined) and had more war debt than the > other 12 colonies combined (it was then "total war", it was civil war, it > was late in the war when the other colonies felt they had "done their > share" and the Carolinas were essentially on their own, and all that was at > stake was the outcome of the war). The war could have been won or lost > there. The Continental forces in the > South had been decimated. All that stood in the way of defeat was the > backcountry militia, and there was a very viable British army still in the > field. And the watchword was that "the militia won't fight". > > We know how it turned out. > > I study the Rev War all over, wherever it happened. But there are few > places it gets more exciting, or more unpredictable (or unbelievable) than > in SC. > > John Robertson > > > > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >