“The big complaint was that the militia did not all fire their 3 aimed shots at the redcoats before fleeing “
That was the recurring complaint about Colonial militia. I discovered that I had a bunch of militia ancestors but none at Guilford Courthouse. A couple were at a Patriot militia vs Loyalist militia fight that while small, was a Patriot victory:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/williamsons-plantation
As a young man, in 1771, my GG++++ was a member of the original ‘insurgents’, the Carolina Regulators. By the time of Yorktown, he was a Captain. Of Militia or Continental Regulars, I have never learned.It is amazing that he survived. But he did.