Monday, July 28, 2008

Carolina Back Country

I have an ancestor who fought with Tarleton's Raiders, Loyalists who massacred women and children in their beds in the worst fighting of the Revolutionary War in those parts, stimulating American patriots to comb through the ruins screaming "Tarleton's quarter, Tarleton's quarter," killing. (I.e. no quarter at all.) It was Indian country and filled with outlaw militias so the killing came easier.

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