Whitelaw Reid, in his 1912 book The Scot in America and the Ulster Scot, writes about Colonial South Carolina and the Scots and Ulster-Scots people who fought for independence: Two of the most noted battles in South Carolina, where half the population was Uster-Scottish, were those of King’s Mountain and Cowpens. At the first,...
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Author and professor Thaddeus Russell comes from a far-Left/Progressive background but came to radical pro-liberty conclusions in his study of Colonial North America and the reactionary, statist forces (represented primarily by the Hamiltonian faction which grew into the Federalist Party) against the freedom which was developing in the late 1700s. Russell also goes into the...
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I found his grave way back in the woods near an old homestead south of what used to be Ellenton, South Carolina, not far from the Savannah River. Ellington was completely destroyed (as were other small SC towns in the area) by the US Federal Government during the Cold War in order to create...
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