[snowsislander]

Moultrie and his group of about 400 men battled from a fort made of sand and palmetto logs on Sullivans Island.

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Who could ever forget the heroics of men like Sergeant Jasper? Truly this was a battle that is deservedly commemorated on South Carolina's flag:

[Iris7]

Certainly the center of gravity of the War of Independence was somewhere between Charleston and the Potomac.

General Washington’s most adroit operations nicely fixed in place the British north of the Chesapeake allowing room for Greene’s operations to the south. General Washington was a most formidable man.

The Southerners had a whole country full of young men much of the sort we see in the young General Andrew Jackson. Those blue coated Continental Line at The Cowpens were southern boys.

So were Tarleton’s dragoons.

Not the first time my idiot relatives were shooting at each other, I suppose, and for sure not the last. Let us hope that 1861-65 was.