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well written and interesting little bookpages of text although it often lacks the detachment that Professor Edgar presumably demanded of his students.
The descriptions of backcountry life and residents was especially interesting,

Readers should be forewarned that this book only covers events up to the end ofthe author's primary purpose seeming to be making the case for the historical importance of Huck's Defeat.
This book is probably a,. There's a lot missing that I wanted to read in this, but there's a lot of interesting detail, as well, The author does a great job of discussing the immigration and societies that formed in the South Carolina backcountry, and how they differed from the planter class and the more prosperous crowd in the Lowcountry.
I really enjoyed the more sociological aspects of the book versus the military sections of the book, and I think that's because that's what the author enjoyed without knowing much of the author.
There is little focus on the actual major battles in South Carolina, but rather the skirmishes that kind of led to the big battles that pushed Cornwallis north chasing Greene.
I think the author did a great job though explaining the mentality of the tories versus the patriots and what drew people into the conflict.
Overall, I just think the book would have been better with either the author focusing on the people, or an author focusing on the actual war, but this seemed kind of lacking.
And it was super short, only aboutpages of actual book, so to fit what he did, I'd recommend this for a quick hit on SC Revolutionary War history.
But for someone who's read a bit more about the War, I could use a little more of all of it, While the author has a good grasp of historical events his writing skills are passable and his storytelling skills are abysmal, A good history of the British occupation of South Carolina, Explains the nature of the civil war fought between patriots and loyalists, with details of the many battles fought in the north and western parts of state.
Most of what is written about the American Revolution covers Virginia northward, Partisans amp Redcoats looks at political and religious factors of the Carolinas and Georgia, but mostly South Carolina, This is a good rendering of the American Revolution in the Southern colonies, A short introduction to the partisan actions in SC following the fall of Charleston in, Edgar provides a really good introduction that sets the stage for a more in depth study of the events in SC and NC during the Revolution.
I recommend it, especially if you're getting ready to embark on a study of Marion, Sumter, and Pickens, I pretty much forgot things in this book as soon as a read them, If that's not dry I don't know what is, But it getsbecause if I'm being honest, I've read much worse, Partisans amp Redcoats is a small, but an extremely enjoyable read covering the guerrilla warfare that erupted in the Carolina backcountry during the American Revolution.
Instead of delving into major battles that most Revolutionary War historians explore, Edgar tells vivid, heroic tales of brave men and women who fought for their lives against the British, and even their own Tory neighbors.
One also walks away with a taste of what everyday life was like for these regular people living in the colonial frontier, This is a must read for anyone studying the American Revolution,
The book was a good read for the student of Colonial America and the revolution, I will say that at times I wish I would have had a map to understand the places and the proximity to other events mentioned in the book.
If you choose to read the book, I would suggest that you get a map of the region as you will have a greater understanding of the places.
I thought this a good look into South Carolina's role in the American Revolution, Walter Edgar did a great job of discussing the colonial history of South Carolina and its uniqueness as one of the original colonies, He explained the tensions of sectarian violence motivated by religious Presbyterian and Baptist and ethnic Scotch Irish that fueled successful war against British rule.
Furthermore tensions in families occurred because Loyalists to the Crown and supporters of the American Patriot cause divided families, brothers and fathers, and communities as a whole.


Edgar did a great of explaining the insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and war crimes launched throughout the South Carolina backcountry, This paralleled themovie The Patriot that was filmed throughout South Carolina, Many were veterans of the French amp Indian War and learned ambush/guerrilla warfare tactics among the Cherokee and used these against British forces.


Overall a great book and quick read on introducing the involvement of South Carolina during the American Revolution, Recommended to Southern history and Revolution readers, Thanks! This is a nice and short little book about the American Revolution in the South, A fast read, as much as it seems to have been written: in a hurry it ends quite abruptly too, The social environment is well described, from the personal accounts of many protagonists on both sides, to the battles and skirmishes that took place along the broad map of South Carolina.
It was as crude as all civil wars: Fathers against sons in some cases, A very visual account, and fast paced,

If only it were a little more organized, geographical and chronologicalwise, The action takes place as soon in the Piedmont as in the lowcountry, and we move from one family or protagonist to another at lightening speed.
Easy to get a little confused, But it does convey the general picture well, Yes, you can get the general idea of what the Revolution meant for South Carolina in this little book, What a tough people the ScotsIrish are, God bless them and the South, Great short book on the American Revolution in the South Carolina backcountry, American scholarship has produced may fine books about the Revolutionary War,

This isn't one of them,

If I recall correctly, the reviews that came out when it was released wrote this book off as a quickie designed to capitalise on the release of the movie "The Patriot".
I don't know if it's true, but it sounds like it, This book, frankly, reads like a desperate attempt to raise the importance of the southern conflict: the turning point of the entire war, it appears, was not the retreat from Philadelphia, or the surrender at Saratoga, or the intervention by France, but an obscure skirmish grandly retitled "The Battle of Huck's Defeat".
As an aside, the attempt to assess the tactics of Banastre Tarleton using the statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia would be unworthy of an undergraduate.


The strongest criticism of this book, though, is its relentless avoiding of the presence of slaves in the southern colonies, There is one single reference to a single slave, who delivered a message for his owner with the revolutionary forces, he detail that in the south the slaves fled toward British

lines, and formed a significant auxiliary to British forces, and rated their chances of freedom rather higher with the antirevolutionary forces, is all fairly significant for understanding this period.
Leaving it out was intellectually dishonest, An interesting book about the importance of the persistence of the Southern Colonies in achieving American independence, But the book has a special place in my heart and bookshelf because of my ancestors on my mother's side who were all in place in the Piedmont of the Carolinas at the time of the Revolution.
The author relates a number of instances in which they were involved, My knowledge of this subject was hazy, and the book was short less thanpages so i read it in an afternoon and I actually feel rather enlightened.
Basically, while the Northern States created an army from ragtag militia, the South, or South Carolina in this case, kept their militia and fought guerilla style for almost every engagement.
Despite their lack of discipline, heroes such as Francis Marion 'The Swamp Fox' continually confused confounded and harrassed the British and kept them from being more effective elsewhere.

This book also aptly illustrates the brutality of the war and the literal war crimes perpetrated by both sides,
My only complaint is that the story never left South Carolina, Perhaps this is where the majority of the fighting was in the Southern Colonies, which justifies the magnifying glass on this state, but I'm sure other states contributed to the southern war.
This brief history nevertheless manages to add significant insights to the American Revolution and the war which accompanied it, Most histories of the Revolutionary War focus on the northern colonies, as this is where Washington and his army spent much of the war.
Yet, conflict was also unfolding in the southern colonies, conflict that could be characterized as both disorganized and brutal, I was struck by many of the stories recounted in this book of a disabled man who could not fight and so instead became an American spy, of women who passed messages to men who were eluding British soldiers, and others.
In addition, this book was also a local history, grounded in a particular place and the people who considered that place home, making for fascinating connections between the local and national aspects of history.
Overall, a readable account of a significant part of the American Revolution which deserves more attention, .