Ken Burns: American Revolution Ep. 6 Reading Guide

Name: The Day it Rained Militia
Brand: Michael C. Scoggins
SKU: 9781596290150
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Further Reading for "The Most Sacred Thing" (May 1780 - Onward)

Southern Strategy, Backcountry Civil War & Yorktown: Explore history from Ken Burns’ The American Revolution, Episode. 6.

This guide provides further reading on The British “Southern Strategy,” civil war in the Carolinas and Georgia, brutal backcountry fighting, treason (Benedict Arnold), Greene’s campaigns, the siege of Yorktown, and questions about what liberty will actually mean in the new nation covered in episode 6 of Ken Burns' documentary series, The American Revolution. Watch on PBS

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The Day it Rained Militia

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Discover how Huck's Defeat spurred on the South Carolina militiamen to future victories during the Revolutionary War.

In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson's plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or Huck's Defeat as it later came to be known, laid the groundwork for the vicious partisan warfare waged by the militiamen on the Carolina frontier against the superior forces of the British Army, and it paved the way for the calamitous defeats that the British suffered at Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation and Cowpens, all in the South Carolina backcountry. In this groundbreaking new study, historian Michael C. Scoggins provides an in-depth account of the events that unfolded in the Broad and Catawba River valleys of upper South Carolina during the critical summer of 1780. Drawing extensively on first-person accounts and military correspondence, much of which has never been published before, Scoggins tells a dramatic story that begins with the capture of an entire American army at Charleston in May and ends with a resounding series of Patriot victories in the Carolina Piedmont during the late summer of 1780-—victories that set Lord Cornwallis and the British Army irrevocably on the road to defeat and to surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.

Yorktown, Virginia

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Yorktown's history is often overshadowed by its pivotal role in the Revolutionary War. The site of the British surrender has held several victory commemorations over the past two hundred years. Yorktown also was a thriving colonial port and the site of one of the biggest Union blunders in the Civil War. During Reconstruction, former slaves created a vibrant community called Slabtown on the edge of the hamlet. In the 1930s, the National Park Service began preserving the battlefield; what was for decades a sleepy village is now dominated by tourism, and nearby modern military installations have helped to give it new life. Join author Wilford Kale as he reveals the many facets of Yorktown.