Collections for the Classroom: Revolutionary South Carolina and “A Vindictive Asperity Not Easily Restrained”
South Carolina Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference
Greenville, South Carolina
September 27-28, 2019
This selection from the American Revolution Institute library collections relates to the role of Revolutionary War propaganda in shaping patriot and loyalist perspectives in South Carolina and supports the master teacher lesson plan Perspective, Place and Propaganda in Revolutionary South Carolina.
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A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America
Banastre Tarleton
London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, 1787
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton was a British commander who led a loyalist unit known as the British Legion. This excerpt from his 1787 memoir of the war in the South discusses his role in the controversial May 29, 1780 Battle of Waxhaws.
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Carolina
Herman Moll
London, 1736
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
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South-Carolina and parts adjacent, shewing the movements of the American and British armies
David Ramsay
Trenton, N.J., 1785
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
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Extract of a letter from Lord Cornwallis to Lieut. Colonel Nisbet Balfour, Commandant at Ninety-Six
Charles Cornwallis, First Marquis Cornwallis
1780
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
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Extract of a letter from Lord Cornwallis to Lieut. Colonel Nisbet Balfour, Commandant at Ninety-Six
Charles Cornwallis, First Marquis Cornwallis
1780
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
verso
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Autobiographical journal: prospect in Mourne, County Down, Ireland, 1795-1819
Alexander Chesney
1795-1819
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
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The journal of Alexander Chesney: a South Carolina loyalist in the revolution and after
Alexander Chesney
Columbus: The Ohio State University, 1921
The Society of the Cincinnati
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Autobiographical journal: prospect in Mourne, County Down, Ireland, 1795-1819
Alexander Chesney
1795-1819
The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839
The Society of the Cincinnati
cover
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839
The Society of the Cincinnati
page 9
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839
The Society of the Cincinnati
page 10
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839
The Society of the Cincinnati
page 11
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839
The Society of the Cincinnati
page 39
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839
The Society of the Cincinnati
page 40
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Letters of Eliza Wilkinson: during the invasion and possession of Charleston, S.C., by the British in the revolutionary war
Eliza Wilkinson and Caroline Howard GilmanNew York: published by Samuel Colman, 1839