Zach Lemhouse discusses the Battle of Williamson\’s Plantation (also known as Huck\’s Defeat) near Brattonsville, SC in the first of 2 episodes
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William E. Sprouse talks about history near Cross Keys in Union County, SC. to include the Battle of Blackstocks with General Sumter and Confederate gold with the flight of Jefferson Davis.
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Rozelle Bramlett recalls the first congregations in Union County, SC and some of the County\’s history
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Kim Stacy discusses the life of the everyday soldier on the British side in the American Revolution
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After the Revolutionary War the United States settled in to grow and expand. Stoneware was developed and played an integral part in both. Philip Wingard of Southern Decorative Arts in Clover, SC takes us through some of the history
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After the Revolutionary War the United States settled in to grow and expand. Stoneware was developed and played an integral part in both. Philip Wingard of Southern Decorative Arts in Clover, SC takes us through some of the history
Historyman presents Rick Wise as he continues with his background on Camden, SC history Part 2 of 2. The epicenter of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Freedom Reigns at Historymanpodcast.com.
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The follow-up podcast with Jim Piecuch and the Revolutionary war cavalry
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Mother nature and hurricanes seemed to have a say in the Revolution as well.
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Cindy Day, Director of the Caldwell County Heritage Museum in Lenoir, NC talks about William Lenoir and Fort Defiance
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Ishmael was a warrior at Camden, Kings Mountain and Guilford\’s Courthouse. He saved his Colonel and fought for Liberty\’s sake…. his and ours.
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Charles Baxley walks us through the Battle of Hobkirk Hill and Nathaniel Greene\’s tactical victory over the British at Camden, SC
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Jerry Martin recalls growing up in Olympia
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Rick Wise talks about Camden, SC and its place in the Revolutionary War
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Jerry Martin, Olympia Mills, Baseball 1950s-1960s Jerry Martin grew up around the winning sports traditions of Olympia Mills. He graduated from Olympia High school in the late 1960s. He went on to play in the major leagues and make a career out of a game that most just enjoy as a past time. Jerry started
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The Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill, the Second Battle of Camden The 1st Maryland Continentals broke at the center of the American line just as the British began to charge up Hobkirk’s Hill on April 25, 1781. The panic that ensued along the American front caused General Nathaniel Greene to withdraw despite his superiority in numbers.
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HISTORY OF JACO’S CORNER August 2017 The intersection of Bluff Road and Rosewood Drive in Columbia has been known as Jaco’s Corner for over a century. The Jaco Family owned and continuously operated a business called Jaco’s Corner there on that corner. This intersection needs to be named officially by the City of Columbia because
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Ten minutes was all it took to hack to death over ninety men on February 24, 1781. Screams and pleas for mercy went unheeded as broadswords and bayonets cut through flesh, bone and any hope that Lord Cornwallis had of the masses coming to the King’s standard. Just west of the Haw river in Alamance
Impaled by bayonet and concealed by the powder smoke, Robert Henry, a mere 16 years of age, was forced to lay prostrate and helpless as the battle went back and forth at Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780. The bayonet charges were a mainstay in the British army and Major Patrick Ferguson had taught his
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Colonel Benjamin Cleveland was of the same bold character as Daniel Boone and found his most delightful pleasure in hunting rather than plowing. As a young man he was often found in the woods hunting and gathering pelts. Two of his childhood friends were Thomas Sumter and Joseph Martin. Sumter would later be known as the
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