Please join us for
the next meeting of the
American Revolution Roundtable of the Backcountry
on Friday evening, January
17, 2014
in the Montgomery
Room of the Burwell Building at Wofford College.
Our speaker, Scott Hodges, an historian from Darien,
Georgia will present Andrew Pickens in first person, using letters, diaries, and documents of the time period.
"General Andrew Pickens was an enigma in the truest sense of
the word. Born out of the turmoil of the American Revolution, he was
known to the Cherokee as "Skyagunsta" or the "Wizard Owl".
This once consummate Indian fighter would become a successful Indian trader and
planter along the South Carolina backcountry in the mid-18th Century.
At the very outset of the Revolution, he would align himself
firmly on the side of the Patriots when he took part in the first land battle
south of New England at Ninety-Six, in November 1775. When the British
took Charleston, in May 1780, Pickens, now Colonel of a backcountry militia
regiment, became known to Lord Cornwallis, the British commander, as "the
most dangerous man in South Carolina". Known to his fellow Patriots
as "the Hero of Kettle Creek," he was instrumental in the defeats of
the British at Augusta, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, and in assisting General
Green at the Siege of Ninety-Six, as well as many other skirmishes in the back
country.
A defender of "Liberty" in both Georgia and South
Carolina, Andrew Pickens was a true "Firebrand of the American
Revolution". Hear his story in his own words from letters, diaries,
and documents of the time period. A display of artifacts and items from
the colonial period accompanies this program."
Schedule: Dessert
& coffee: 6:30-7:00, Program: 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Cost: $5.00 per person
If you plan to attend, please
contact me or Juanita Pesaro at PesaroJB@Wofford.Edu
not later than Wednesday, January 15.
