Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
Prologue 7
1 The Early Days (1740-1765) 11
2 Edging Toward War (1765-1775) 27
3 Pickens Sees Action (1775) 46
4 Here Come the Redcoats! Here come the Cherokee! (1776) 55
5 The Backcountry Heats up (1777-1778) 81
6 Georgia Explodes! (1779) 99
7 South Carolina in Jeopardy (1780) 134
8 It Comes Apart for Britain (1780) 167
9 Cowpens! (1781) 189
10 Taking Control of South Carolina (1781) 233
11 The Siege of Augusta (1781) 255
12 The Siege of Ninety Six (1781) 262
13 Cleaning up the Backcountry (1781 and Later) 290
Epilogue 301
Appendices
A South Carolina Legislature Bill of 2007 307
B Civil Records 308
Will of Andrew Pickens, Sr. 308
Estate Inventory of Andrew Pickens, Sr. 308
Abstracts of Augusta Country, Virginia, Records 309
Will of Robert Gouedy 309
C 1755 Anson Country, North Carolina, Militia 310
D 1778 Constitution of South Carolina 312
E Pension Claims 318
F Pinckens, Hillhouse and the Cherokee Ancestry of the Author 345
G Articles from Revolutionary Era Publications 348
Chapter Notes 363
Bibliography 379
Index 383