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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Signal Beacons of Gandor used in NC mountains during the revolution? Local folklore in and around Wilkes and Caldwell Counties in NC reveal the story of Martin Gambill. His 100-mile journey to warn the Patriots of the British invasion into the mountains is the stuff of Legends. The story goes that the watch fires that
“If you want your horses fed, feed them yourself,\” replied ten-year-old William Davenport to Tory leader John McFall in September of 1780. Channeling his father\’s courage he would become a leader in his own right as he grew older. The Davenport College for Women in Lenoir, NC was formed through his philanthropy. John McFall served in Major
In September of 1780 British Major Patrick Ferguson raised his army of over 1000 men and headed up into the North Carolina Mountains. Going through present day, Chesney, SC and onto Rutherfordton, NC., his army would live off the land as they worked their way from community to hamlet. On the general route laid out
The Twin Poplars of Peace Local legend has it that over 280 years ago the Catawba and the Cherokee Indians were locked in a brutal and savage conflict in the smoky hills around Lenoir, North Carolina. So many warriors were killed on both sides that the leaders came together to talk peace, not as victor over
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Isaac Shelby was definitely not a “fence sitter” during the war with the mother country. He was, as a son of his father Evan Shelby, a proponent by deed of the Fincastle Resolutions and had resolved to \”live and die\” while never surrendering his \”inestimable privileges\”.(1) He understood Freedom and slavery. He understood the Quebec acts as intolerable to
A man and a horse do not a cavalry make! A lack of swords was a serious problem for Revolutionary war era cavalry, and on June 18, 1781 the Patriots got the worst end of their encounter with 200 British mounted infantry in Gilbert, SC. After this running battle from Highway 1 down Peach Festival
