Southern Partisans: Recent Episodes
Wayne Lynch
Collection of stories and lectures from the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. The emphasis is on the period from May 1780 to the end of the war in the back country of Georgia and the Carolinas where local volunteers organized themselves into partisan regiments to resist the British occupation. These heroic volunteers kept the fires of liberty alive and likely prevented the southern states from being severed from the north by Lord Germain's famous 'Southern Strategy'.
The militia man Tarleton Brown tells the story of his first Tory hunt across the river in Georgia.
Biographical entry on the Cunningham family, specifically concerning William 'Bloody Bill' Cunningham.
Following the Loyalist defeat at Kettle Creek, the British retreated from the Georgia back country to their positions around Savannah. Newly appointed commander of the southern district, Benjamin Lincoln would try to take the intitiative and start a campaign against the British.
In episode Four Lt Col Campbell leads the first British incursion into the southern back country. He would find something very different from the willing loyal population described by those who pushed for the Southern Strategy.
The British implemented the Southern Strategy late in 1778 with an invasion of Georgia under Lt Colonel Sir Archibald Campbell, a most able commander.
A brief talk on the famous Southern Strategy devised by Lord Germain and implemented by Clinton and Cornwallis in Georgia and South Carolina.
A summary of events at the Waxhaws on May 29, 1780 as Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion routed the 11th Virginia under Colonel Buford. Later accusations of massacre turned this otherwise minor engagement into a major event.