Augusta, GA
Stories
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Brown
The Man Called Burnfoot
Thomas Brown arrived in Georgia in 1774 with capital, ambition, and a plan to establish a plantation in the backcountry. He was twenty-four years old, a recent immigrant from Yorkshire, and he had cho...
Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee
The Tower That Won Augusta
The problem with Fort Cornwallis was the walls. Thomas Brown had been a careful engineer as well as a ruthless commander, and the fort he had built on the high ground near the Savannah River had walls...