Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas

Through the eyewitness accounts of those who faught the battles and skirmishes of the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, this book provides the reader with firsthand looks at how it felt. The entries in this volume are taken from first-person narratives by those on the scene, from officers such as Henry Lee and Banastre Tarleton to teenaged scouts such as Thomas Young and James Collins. Some accounts were written immediately after the action, others were written by boy soldiers who had become old men.