#overmountainmen

[atlas-with-a-gun]

I'm back. I'm far worse. Become proficient, become a teacher. Raise better men, build better fighters.

[buckydoll]

Bonus photo of the Overmountain Folks, who all laughed when i said they were missing a Plague Doctor. The gentleman in black placed the bell next to the doctor. . . (Bucky would have joined, but he felt out of place. Handler is holding him while taking the photo) . . . #plaguedoctor #squishables #overmountainmen #sycamoreshoals #cute #lookathimsocializing #proud #actors #amazingfolks https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyehe2l32s/?igshid=o2yg13rzflgm

[billpichette]

America's First Civil War

2/6/2014 – The Revolution in the South was nasty. Vicious skirmishes and local fighting between Americans took place-between Americans still loyal to the King and those who were against him, or just against their neighbors. Militia groups under men like Francis Marion were brutal and effective. Loyalist militias under men like Banastre “the butcher” Tarleton were brutal and effective. Cornwallis thought his western flank would be protected by Loyalist militia, that a great Tory army would rise up and help him win the south. His boss in New York sent one particularly gifted officer with a “clean” reputation to raise that army. So the threat was made that any settlers in the “frontier”-Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky-who took arms against the King would be killed and their farms taken or destroyed. For many who hadn’t gotten involved in the fight to this point, the threat was too much. They gathered-from the Carolinas, Virginia, and the “Overmountain Men” from the frontier. The learned of an encampment in the hills of South Carolina, the Tory army led by Major Patrick Ferguson, a gifted man who once held the fate of our country in his hands-more about that later. They gathered, with leaders who urged them to fight without orders, to fight as individuals but join a group with one cause. They gathered to stop the one British soldier leading an army of Americans with different loyalties from ever leaving King’s Mountain and harming their families. On October 7th, 1780, they encircled the mountain and charged bravely up the hill, ending the life of the one British soldier and many of their fellow Americans, and stopped cold any more gatherings of Loyalist militias for the duration of the Revolution. When it was over, their leaders stopped a reprisal massacre many thought they were owed by bad blood and Tarleton's murder of surrendered militia at Waxhaws, NC. Then this army who stopped Cornwallis’ plan for a great Tory Army, forcing him back to that river port in Virginia, who destroyed one third of the British forces in the South, this group of Americans fighting other Americans in our first civil war, went back to their homes and families that they had just saved. Except for the men who are memorialized on King's Mountain.

[jillsprague7]

I'm listening to the Ramseur Records Christmas CD thing

And I could not be happier about Christmas music before Thanksgiving.

AND THE PALEFACE SONG ON IT IS THE ONE FROM PS I LOVE YOU. A;SDKLFJA;SDKFJA;SDFKJAS;DLFKASD;LFKJAS;DLKJ INWARDLY DYING.