South Carolina – The American Revolution

South Carolina SC History SC American Revolution

SC Revolutionary War Overviews

• Revolutionary War Military Engagements - lists more than 130 battles fought in South Carolina
  
• Revolutionary War in South Carolina - excellent, detailed
• Revolutionary War in the Midlands of South Carolina

SC Revolutionary War Factions

• American Patriots - also called Rebels
  – South Carolina Patriots
  
• Loyalists - also called Royalists, Tories
  – 1782 - published by Charlestown's "Royal Gazette"
  – 1783
  – Why Were Some of Our Ancestors Tories? - focuses on English, Irish, and German ethnicities
  

SC Revolutionary War Battles

• Battle of Cane Break / Reedy River - December 22, 1775
  

• Battle of Yamacraw Bluff / Rice Boats - March 2-3, 1776 - battle took place along the Savannah River
  

• Battle of Sullivan's Island - Fort Sullivan - June 28-29, 1776 - known as Carolina Day
  – Brief recap
  – British perspective
  – Fort Moultrie
  

• Battle of Port Royal Island / Beaufort - February 3, 1779
  

• First Battle of Charleston - May 11-12, 1779
  

• Battle of Stono Ferry - June 20, 1779
  

• Second Battle of Charleston - April 1 - May 12, 1780
  

• Battle of Monck's Corner - April 14, 1780
  

• Battle of Lenud's Ferry - May 6, 1780
  

• Second Battle of Fort Moultrie - May 7, 1780
  

• Battle of Waxhaws - May 29, 1780 - Also known as the Buford Massacre or Buford's Defeat
  – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton - British commander whom earned his reputation as a "butcher" at this engagement
  

• Alexander's Old Fields - June 6, 1780
  

• Presbyterian Rebellion and the Battle of Huck's Defeat - July, 1780 - York County
  Also known as the Battle of Williamson's Plantation. This excellent essay explains how South Carolina's Scots-Irish backcountry settlers turned the tide of the American Revolution in the South.
  – Brief recap
  

• Battle of Rocky Mount - August 1, 1780
  

• Battle of Hanging Rock - August 6, 1780
  

• Battle of Wateree Ferry / Skirmishat Cary's Fort - August 15, 1780
  

• Battle of Camden - August 15-16, 1780
  – Overview
  – battleofcamden.org - incredible documentary history
  – More info - another great site - scroll down for contents
  – Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site - visiting today
  – Men of Camden - Cornwallis, de Kalb, Gates, Tarleton
  

• Battle of Fishing Creek - August 18, 1780 - Catawba Ford, SC
  

• Battle of Musgrove's Mill - August 18, 1780
  – Visiting today
  

• First Battle of Great Savannah / Nelson's Ferry - August 20, 1780
  

• Battle of Blue Savannah - September 4, 1780
  

• Battle of Black Mingo Creek - September 29, 1780
  

• Battle of Kings Mountain - October 7, 1780
  – Cherokee County - Blacksburg
  – Kings Mountain National Military Park - visiting today
  

• Battle of Fishdam Ford - November 9, 1780
  

• Battle of Blackstocks Plantation - November 20, 1780
  – About William Blackstock Plantation
  

• Battle of Rugeley's Mills / Clermont - December 4, 1780
  

• Battle of Halfway Swamp - December 12-13, 1780
  

• Battle of Cowpens - Janurary 17, 1781
  – Overview
  – Map of battlefield
  – The Battle of Cowpens
  – Cowpens National Battlefield - visiting today
  – Reenactment pictures
  – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton - British commander
  

• Battle of Georgetown - January 24, 1781
  

• Battle of Fort Watson - April 15-23, 1781
  

• Battle of Hobkirk's Hill - April 25, 1781 - Camden
  – Rediscovering Hobkirk's Hill - archaeological data, maps, battle history
  

• Battle of Fort Motte - May 8, 1781
  – Fort Motte Battle Site
  

• Battle of Orangeburg - May 11, 1781
  

• Battle of Fort Granby - May 15, 1781
  

• Battle of Ninety Six - May 22 through June 18, 1781
  – Archeology at Ninety Six
  – Images of the Ninety Six Battleground
  – Ninety Six National Historic Site - visiting today
  

• Battle of Quinby Bridge - July 17, 1781
  

• Battle of Parker's Ferry - August 13, 1781
  

• USS Congress vs. HMS Savage - September 6, 1781 - off the coast of Charleston
  

• Battle of Eutaw Springs - September 8, 1781 - Eutawville
  

• First Battle of Dorchester - December 1, 1781
  

• Skirmish at Slaughter Field - December 22, 1781 - north of Blackville
  

• Battle of John's Island - December 28-29, 1781
  

• Battle of Combahee Ferry - August 27, 1782
  

• Battle of Fair Lawn - August 29, 1782
  

• Battle of John's Island - November 4, 1782 - last battle fought before the Provisional Treaty was signed in Paris
  

SC Revolutionary War Campaigns

• Battles of Francis Marion - 1780-1781 - scroll down

• Carolina Campaign - 1780-1781
  

• Online Library of the Southern Campaign - exceptional research

• Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution - group promotes research, sharing of information - click Magazine for reference articles
  

SC Revolutionary War Maps

• Maps

SC Revolutionary War Heroes

• Butler, Pierce
• Felder, Captain Henry
• Gadsden, Christopher
• Geiger, Emily
  – More info
  
• Heyward, Thomas Jr.
• Jasper, Sergeant William
• Laurens, Henry
• Lynch, Thomas Jr.
• Marion, Francis - The Swamp Fox
  – Battles of Francis Marion - 1780-1781 - scroll down
• Middleton, Arthur
• Motte, Rebecca Brewton
  – More info
  
• Moultrie, William
• Pickens, Andrew
• Pinckney, Charles
• Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas - Eliza
• Rutledge, Edward
• Rutledge, John
• Sumter, Thomas - The Gamecock

• Delegates to the Constitutional Convention - National Archives