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The Day it Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry May-July 1780: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South ... Backcountry, May-July 1780 (Military) Kindle Edition
Discover how "Huck's Defeat" spurred on the South Carolina militiamen to future victories during the Revolutionary War.
In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson's plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, laid the groundwork for the vicious partisan warfare waged by the militiamen on the Carolina frontier against the superior forces of the British Army, and it paved the way for the calamitous defeats that the British suffered at Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation and Cowpens, all in the South Carolina backcountry. In this groundbreaking new study, historian Michael C. Scoggins provides an in-depth account of the events that unfolded in the Broad and Catawba River valleys of upper South Carolina during the critical summer of 1780. Drawing extensively on first-person accounts and military correspondence, much of which has never been published before, Scoggins tells a dramatic story that begins with the capture of an entire American army at Charleston in May and ends with a resounding series of Patriot victories in the Carolina Piedmont during the late summer of 1780---victories that set Lord Cornwallis and the British Army irrevocably on the road to defeat and to surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe History Press
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2005
- File size6436 KB
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- ASIN : B00XR20KEO
- Publisher : The History Press (September 1, 2005)
- Publication date : September 1, 2005
- Language : English
- File size : 6436 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 550 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #753,572 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author
Michael C. Scoggins is the historian for the Culture & Heritage Museums (CHM) and is research director of the Southern Revolutionary War Institute (SRWI) in York, South Carolina. Michael has an Associate Degree in Science from the University of South Carolina at Union, an Associate Degree in Engineering Technology from York Technical College, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Winthrop University. He was employed as an electronics engineer for almost twenty years before changing careers in 1999 to pursue his life-long interest in military history and Southern history. He is the author of "The Great Awakening and Southern Backcountry Revolutionaries" (Springer, 2014, with Rick Chacon); "The Scotch-Irish Influence of Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes and Sacred Songs" (History Press, 2013); "Cavalry of the American Revolution" (Westholme, 2012, contributor); "Historic York County: An Illustrated History" (Historic Publishing Network, 2009); "The Day It Rained Militia: Huck’s Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780" (History Press, 2005); "Relentless Fury: The Revolutionary War in the Southern Piedmont" (CHM, 2006); and "A Brief History of Historic Brattonsville" (CHM, 2003). Scoggins also edited the republication of Benson Lossing’s 1889 classic, "Reflections of Rebellion: Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution" (History Press, 2005), and co-wrote (with Dr. Bobby G. Moss) the highly acclaimed "African-American Patriots in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" (Scotia-Hibernia Press, 2004) and "African-American Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" (Scotia-Hibernia Press, 2005). He has contributed articles to numerous historical publications and journals, including "Patriots of the American Revolution;" "War, Literature and the Arts;" "Military Collector and Historian;" "The South Carolina Encyclopedia;" "Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution;" "Carologue;" "American Revolution Magazine;" and "York County Magazine." Scoggins served as editor of the "York County Genealogical and Historical Society Quarterly" for seven years; as president of the Confederation of South Carolina Local Historical Societies for two years; and currently serves as an officer in the Scotch-Irish Society of the USA and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is a frequent lecturer on topics of local and regional history and resides near McConnells, South Carolina.
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Past authors have done us a great disservice by naming only the smallest number of the brave and hearty individuals from SC and the region that made the United States a reality.
It contains 18 pages of color photos of reenactors portraying scenes from the stories. Nice.
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