Publications

Editor in Chief: David Neilan

Editors: G. Richard “Rick” Wise and Benjamin H. “Ben” Rubin

This publication explores the identity of Willie, who led Lieutenant Kemp’s platoon of Loyalist troops into an ambush by Patriot forces at Matthew Bluff in present-day Allendale County, South Carolina, on January 22, 1781.

Few military units of the American Revolution have received less attention from historians than Major John Harrison’s South Carolina Rangers, a provincial regiment organized in June 1780. The handful of accounts that do mention Harrison and his troops have generally portrayed them in an unfavorable light, describing Harrison and his brothers as robbers and the Rangers as plunderers and murderers.

Many historians of the American Revolution often overlook a treasure trove of valuable materials: British records. This publication outlines three British returns, helping expand knowledge of what occurred at these engagements and which British units were present. They also provide more accurate casualty figures than the estimates that appear in numerous histories.

This publication is a reintroduction of James McCall to the American public. His role in the American Revolution has been almost forgotten by popular history for the past 200 years.