The Day it Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry May-July 1780


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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.




Cracker Culture


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A History Book Club Alternate Selection. "A controversial and provocative study of the fundamental differences that shaped the South ... fun to read", -- History Book Club Review




Ratchfords ... I Reckon


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William Ratchford was born in 1724, possibly in North Carolina, and in 1754 received a land grant in Anson (now Grant) Co., North Carolina. He married Mary Carroll, and they moved to South Carolina in 1791, settling in York Co. He died in 1804.




Glenn and Kin


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James Glen[n] and his wife, Hannah (Thompson?) Glen were living in New Kent County, Virginia, by 1717 in the area that became part of of Hanover County, Virginia, in 1721. In his will, written in June 1762, and probated in Hanover County, Virginia, in February 1763, he named twelve children. Descendants lived in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and elsewhere. Most descendants spelled their surname "Glenn."




The Dallas Quarterly


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Bullock Creek Church


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