Posted on 07/12/2016 10:00:33 AM PDT by knarf
On this day in 1780, Americans win the Battle of Williamson’s Plantation (or Huck’s Defeat) in South Carolina. Wait until you hear what one brave woman did, despite the fact that an irate British officer was literally in her face!
The battle took place shortly after the surrender of Charleston and the massacre at the Battle of the Waxhaws. Those two battles had been demoralizing for the Patriot cause. The British were beginning to think that they’d squashed resistance in South Carolina. Perhaps worse, many Americans feared that they were right.
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My GGGG Grandfather and GGG Grandfather were with Colonel Campbell’s Virginians that came down to the Carolinas for the battles of King’s Mountain and Guilford Courthouse.
Am I THAT old ?!?!
Am I THAT old ?!?!
It was the Revolutionary War 235 years ago.
Our family history became a really strange personal journey for my family. Our ancestors were paid for their military service in land grants in Alabama. I was raised in North Georgia and my Dad was transferred by GE to Huntsville, Alabama in 1966. When that job ended in 1968 he was transferred to Waynesboro, VA in Augusta County where he retired from GE and moved back to North Georgia.
It was a few years later that my Aunt's genealogy search found that our ancestors originally came from that same area of Virginia where our family lived and our ancestors were included on a plaque in the Huntsville, AL Courthouse as Revolutionary War veterans and founding citizens of Madison County, AL. We had backtracked their 200 year ago journey. Cosmic synchronicity is a wonder to behold.
Thanx.
Thank you for posting.
yw
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