The War moved to the South after 1777. The English aimed their main thrust south to split the colonies and defeat the rebel armies in detail. What followed were The Battle of Cowpens. King's Mountain. Eutaw Springs. 96. The Battle of Huck's Defeat. The Race to the Dan. Yorktown.
There was a lot of Patriot vs Torie civil war in the South in addition to fighting against the Redcoats. At King's Mountain a self-organized militia of 'over the moutain men' pursued and trapped a Tory militia army on a hilltop and shot them to pieces. During that battle the patriot militia terrified the Tories with a high pitched 'indian' shriek, the ancestor of the rebel yell heard 80 years later. This history has been an interest of mine, I have a half dozen ancestors who played a role in it.
Were they Scots-Irish?