And the Revolutionary War was won in the southern theater, long after the fighting had ended up north.
The string of battles in the south leading up to Yorktown don’t get the attention that Concord & Lexington, Bunker Hill, Crossing the Delaware, Valley Forge and other northern events routinely get. Students of the war will know Cowpens, King’s Mountain, the Race to the Dan, but the general public isn’t likely to know them.
I had a dozen or so ancestors involved in the fighting down south, a couple were Continental Line but most were militia. The Thomas Carroll mentioned in the battle at Williamson’s Plantation/Huck’s Defeat is one of them:
http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_williamsons_plantation.html
I have Maryland Carroll ancestors myself, no known connection with the Carrollton Carrolls that I’ve been able to find and burned counties up there (1812) will likely prevent ever figuring that connection out. I’ve got seven confirmed in the Rev, many other reputed to have been but pension apps no help, so I’m stuck. Haven’t worked very hard at it for several years, genealogy is very interesting until you’ve been pounding your head on a brick wall that just won’t give for a few years.