Thanks for the ping Pharmboy. What a great man!
And Wildbill, I was a history major as well - at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) - and never heard of him either.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a lot of things were written out of the history books. The victors get to write them, you know.
My screen name refers to what was once recognized as the beginning of the American Revolution. Then-famous quotes from that 1760’s “war” were attributed to New Englanders. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was written off as a fraud. The good ladies of Edenton, NC, with their Tea Party, were ignored.
And, the most amazing snub of all, is that Jamestown, VA is overlooked in favor of Plymouth Rock, despite being established nearly twenty years earlier.
I try to pull such events, figures and even places from historical obscurity, whenever possible. We should know our real history, and not some sanitized, regionally biased account, based upon old grudges, from old wars.
The Revolution was won in the Carolinas and Virginia, with a big nod of thanks to backwoods “Over The Mountain Men” from a region that would soon be ceded by NC to form the great state of Tennessee in 1796. You don’t see that admitted very much, either, despite the rather obvious historical accounts that cannot be avoided.