This is from Rootsweb Review this week. SCAR Organization and Websites by Nancy Lindroth, Augusta, Georgia I was raised in New Jersey and most of what I knew about the American Revolution, I learned in History class--Lexington and Concord, Trenton, and Valley Forge. I don't recall learning anything about the "Southern Campaign." Many years later I moved to South Carolina and while working in the tourism industry, learned that there were more Revolutionary War battles and skirmishes fought in South Carolina than in any other state. (North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia also had their fair share.) While researching a soldier who had served in Maryland (Sergeant Hugh McMillan, wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs), I encountered a group of people collecting and disseminating published and unpublished information about the Southern Campaign. One of their projects is a website entitled "The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" [SCAR], where they publish a quarterly magazine-type newsletter that includes scholarly articles about battles, leaders, pensions, ongoing research, and maps; letters to the editor; a calendar of events; and so forth. If your ancestor fought in the South during the American Revolution, you need to visit this site: http://www.southerncampaign.org In addition to the newsletters, you can access an amazing collection of information via their links. My two favorites are the following: 1. A pension site by Will Graves, who has transcribed and posted more than 2,000 Revolutionary War pensions: http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/ 2. "Revolutionary War Gazetteer and Pensions," by John Robertson: http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/gaz/index.htm Will and John welcome submissions of your transcribed pensions if the soldier in any way participated in the Southern Campaign. John also welcomes additional information about the battles identified in his Gazetteer. Cornwallis may have surrendered at Yorktown on 19 October 1781, but many of the American troops did not leave Charlestown/Charleston/ James Island, South Carolina, until June and July of 1783. I have found very little in print about these troops. Your pension contributions may enable me and other Southern Campaign researchers to access thousands of valuable firsthand accounts so that the full Revolutionary War story can be told. Independence was won in the South by men from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and the mountains of what is now Tennessee and Kentucky. And what they endured was equal to or may have been worse than the winter at Valley Forge. Please share these sites with your genealogical organization and have them included in their newsletters so that as many people as possible know they exist. Who knows, perhaps I'll meet you on SCAR's upcoming cruise highlighting Revolutionary War activities in the Caribbean. * * * ***************************** Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"