ETV Endowment - Southern Campaign Tour, Day 3: On the third and final day of the Southern Campaign tour, we visited two battlefield sites: Historic Brattonsville, and King's Mountain. This video covers Brattonsville. In June 1780, the British had established an "outpost" at Rocky Mount, in the Catawba Valley. Lieutenant Colonel George Turnbull sent troops into what are now York and Chester counties to round up and eliminate the rebels. Captain Christian Huck, a loyalist from Philadelphia, was the leader. This battle became known as the "Battle at Williamson's Plantation" or "Huck's Defeat." Today, the battlefield and plantation location are a "living history" community. Park employees and docents wear attire from the period, and tell visitors about what life was like on the plantation. A few even wore period era uniforms. One person even wore an accurate British Green Dragoon uniform, and rode a horse! The community also is a fully functional farm, where livestock such as horses, sheep, pigs, and chickens are cared for.
Standards
- 8.2.CO Compare the motives and demographics of loyalists and patriots within South Carolina and the colonies.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the economic, political, and social motivations of the patriots and the loyalists in the era of the American Revolution.
- 8.2.CE Explain the economic, political, and social factors surrounding the American Revolution.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the colonies began to unify to create a distinctive American identity over the course of events of the American Revolution.
