Teacher Resources
South Carolina
South Carolina's war was the most brutal in the colonies — a civil war within a war, with Patriot and Loyalist militias fighting in a landscape of isolated plantations and dense backcountry. Enslaved people's labor and knowledge shaped every campaign.
The fall of Charleston in 1780 was the worst American defeat of the entire war, surrendering an entire Continental Army. What followed was a guerrilla war of extraordinary violence — Tarleton's Quarters, the massacre at Waxhaws, the retaliatory raids by Sumter and Marion. The eight towns in this collection span the Southern campaign from Fort Moultrie's early defiance in 1776 to Nathanael Greene's grinding war of attrition that wore British strength to nothing without ever winning a decisive battle.
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0 of 8 South Carolina towns have curated teacher resources.
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- CamdenPending
- CowpensPending
- Ninety SixPending
- Eutaw SpringsPending
- BeaufortPending
- Hobkirk's HillPending
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