Little-Known Stories

There are many Revolutionary-era stories about how women, native Americans and enslaved people in South Carolina played important roles in the War and fought on both sides. Learn about these overlooked, but meaningful stories.

Upstate Loyalists

Greenville

Richard Pearis: Loyalist Officer and First European Settler of Greenville Richard Pearis was a colonial frontiersman and trader who straddled the cultural and political divides of Revolutionary South Carolina. Through trade licensed by the British government, Pearis developed deep connections with the Cherokee Nation, serving as an interpreter and eventually...

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Private Bailey Anderson – Annotated Timeline of Revolutionary War Service

Spartanburg

Serving for at least six years of the eight-year war, Bailey Anderson was deeply involved in the battles of Revolutionary South Carolina. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, Anderson was 21 years old and living ten miles north of present-day Spartanburg in what was formerly the Ninety...

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Prison Ship in Charleston Harbor 

Charleston

Joseph Herndon was a private in the North Carolina Militia at the Battle of Camden. He survived the disaster at Camden and went on to serve at Guilford Courthouse until he was captured during David Fanning’s raid on the Chatham County (NC) courthouse in July of 1781. He was one...

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