Posted on 01/04/2019 1:38:59 AM PST by vannrox
I doubt many today even know who Nat Green was either. Maybe it is also a good place to tell people there was another “Tea Party.” It was in Maryland and went a big step farther than just throwing tea overboard...……………...the Marylanders also sank the ship.
I did not say Disney was fact. Just saying it refers to the best-known partisan of the war.
I figured you should know something about this, pseudonym Molly Pitcher. ;-)
Anyway, I would not call Morgan strictly guerilla and he certainly was no “partisan” constantly harassing regular troops in a surreptitious manner. Morgan may have been a rough-hewn backwoodsman, but he was really a “regular” officer of good numbers of troops, not independent with a small band, which is how Marion got famous.
It was well-known at the time, in our history and RevWar groups, that Patriot’s Ben Martin was based primarily on the Swamp Fox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_(2000_film)
yeah, i had people die in that war including a GG Grandfather. I actually sympathize with the south however....just hate to see all the venom spew out on how bad the North treated traitor citizens
The Peggy Stewart. Which her owner offered to burn as a penance.
I read a book about this man. It was either his personal account or one written with his help. The incident with the river boat is a lot more impressive than related above. He chose a particular spot on a bluff above a bend in the river, knowing that traffic would need to slow and that an upstream boat would be particularly vulnerable. He sniped probably half a dozen men, including the ranking officer and the river pilot on that boat and made it impossible for the boat to pass. Afterward, he terrorized union troops and sympathizers, often hanging two at a time against a tree with a noose made from stripped tree bark.
You must be a Marylander too. Once upon a time for me. Never hear anymore of Tench Tilghman either.
I am a MDer, and hence my name.
One never hears of the AmRevWar, so I was overjoyed at the Patriot. I really don’t care that it’s not really accurate - the point is it draws attention, and really is a good movie in general. Oh, I pick at it, but ultimately I’m grateful someone FINALLY made a movie having to do with it. AND of the South - NEers have successfully fooled everyone into thinking the RevWar was ALL about them (just like the nonsense about Pilgrims and Thanksgiving). Hardly, actually. The mid-Atlantic is really where it’s at.
We’ll do something about it. Jeeze anybody can byotch and moan.
Here’s one from the Appalachian Frontier
Lewis Weitzel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Wetzel
He was called “Death Wind” by the Shawnee because of the eerie call he would make when he entered a area. Indians would know to leave & settlers would know they were safe.
Today not a very PC hero to celebrate but at the time the people of the fronteir revered him.
I’m a lifelong yankee and I agree with you.
Shenandoah. James Stewart.
That is so interesting.
Thanks.
Ping
I could try to explain to you
But it’s kind of like war, divorce, cancer and open heart surgery
Unless you’re one of us you’ll never get it
There are many factors make the south what it is.....the homogenous nature of the populace is a big part and that most natives have roots here from the beginning
Aside from one word you did ok
That border/bushwhacker/Union revenge stuff was a very ugly business. I’m sure that the revenge reminds you, as it does me, of another army that made it a practice some decades later. Occupation armies that murder civilians put targets on their own backs.
My dad told me that anarchy was one of the many unnerving things that he witnessed in WWII. Civil order would break down around the fighting, there was no police or anyone else to protect civilians from roving gangs.
I know that we had a big Civil Affairs Division whose sole job was to restore order and a semblance of government as the front line moved on, so he may not have seen them at work. But it was bad news for civilians until that occurred.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time around Dover and Cumberland city where an old ferry still exists over the Cumberland
And I’ve toured the battlefield sites where Forrest snuck out rather than surrender
But I confess I’d never heard this story till today
We are all most familiar with partisan guerrilla war in Missouri and Kansas and eastern KY and TN and sw VA and of course Jones county Mississippi
Partisan strife is never pretty or fair
What happened to Hinson though was Federal Army excess....that happened far more frequently than it’s currently fashionable to admit
Agree with you, from one Old Liner to another. There is sooooo much history in Maryland and on to the south. I’m from the Eastern Shore, once called God’s Country.
“just hate to see all the venom spew out on how bad the North treated traitor citizens”
King George and his gov’t referred to George Washington and every other Colonial in rebellion as traitors. A mere 90 yrs before the Civil War.
Had London prevailed you’d currently be calling the Founders ‘traitor citizens’, unless as a descendant of the patriot side you were engaging in ‘venom spew’ against Banastre Tarleton and other agents of the Royal government.
“What happened to Hinson though was Federal Army excess.”
And having better sense today is why the Army removes or even prosecutes a William Calley. There’s enough trouble fighting your main enemy without giving civilians a reason to want to kill you too.
Well, you produced John Barth, which is a plus.
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