Posted on 07/10/2006 5:25:43 PM PDT by Pharmboy
ROCK HILL, S.C. - A research facility is planned for York County that will focus on the role of Southern states in the Revolutionary War.
Historian Michael Scoggins said the Southern Revolutionary War Institute will be used to educate people about the South's contributions to the war. It's a field he says has been neglected in the past.
"There's been various fields that downplay the role of the South," Scoggins said. "When you look at most history textbooks, we are generally given the short treatment."
The institute will be based at the McCelvey Center in York and local officials hope it will be a tourist draw.
"I think that people are going to flock here from all over the world because there's nothing else like this out there in the world," said Charles Baxley, advisory council member for the institute and editor and publisher of the online newsletter "Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution."
The institute will house the Bobby G. Moss Revolutionary War Collection, microfilm copies of the Lyman C. Draper Manuscript collection and the Cornwallis Papers among other collections.
Rory Cornish, chairman of the history department at Winthrop University, said the institute will be a "great source for history majors" and looks forward to its future use by Winthrop faculty and students.
"Patriot & Loyalist Rosters & Annotated Journals
For Carolina Revolutionary War Battles"
by Dr. BOBBY GILMER MOSS
http://scotia-hibernia-press.com/
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