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  • Doomed British infantry officer describes siege of Charleston: Captain's letter

    11/17/2008 11:23:00 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 27 replies · 1,259+ views
    The Post and Courier ^ | November 17, 2008 | Brian Hicks
    Melissa Haneline/The Post and CourierJai Cassidy-Shaman handles two Revolutionary War letters Tuesday bought at auction by the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia. Like so many first-time visitors to the Lowcountry, Charles Campbell was enchanted. In a letter to his father back home in Britain, Campbell gushed about the natural beauty of the Holy City in spring. Captain's letter "Charlestown is a handsome and well built town situated on the extremity of a tongue of land formed by two large & navigable rivers, Cooper and Ashley;" he wrote, "it lays open to the sea, and...
  • House votes to preserve historic Mass. farm

    09/23/2008 8:57:57 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 28 replies · 196+ views
    AP via Charlotte Examiner ^ | Sep 22, 2008 | Anon AP Stringer
    The House has approved a bill aimed at preserving Barrett's Farm, a Revolutionary War landmark in Concord, Mass. snip... The farm belonged to Col. James Barrett, a leader of the Middlesex Militia. It was used to store colonial militia weapons and was searched by the British during the fighting at Concord's Old North Bridge on April 19, 1775. The Senate is considering a similar measure.