Publications

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.

This document is a work in progress of the African American Revolutionary Soldiers Honor Project. The information presented is preliminary and will evolve in light of new or corrected data.
The purpose of this project is to identify
(1) South Carolina men of color
(2) who were free at the time of their service and
(3) who had verifiable military service during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
For purposes of this research, South Carolina may be the birth place or residence of the Patriot, pre- or post-war year

No other Revolutionary-era South Carolina woman enjoys more contemporary recognition and fame than Dicey Langston. Laodicea “Dicey” Langston Springfield was born May 14, 1766 in the Ninety Six District, in what later became Laurens County.1 She married Thomas Springfield when they were both age 16. They started a large family and moved to neighboring Greenville County, a region of the state which was in Cherokee Territory until it was ceded to South Carolina in 1777 and opened to White settlers after the Revolutionary War. Though Dicey never lived outside those two South Carolina backcountry locales, people from coast to coast revere Dicey almost 250 years following her acts of Revolutionary War valor.