Ninety Six, SC
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Twenty-Eight Days
Cruger had 550 men. Greene had a thousand, and more militia operating on his flanks. Cruger had no way to know when or whether relief would come — Rawdon was still organizing his column in Charleston,...
Modern Voices
The Cost of Winning
The British won the siege of Ninety Six. That sentence is accurate. It's also a nearly complete mischaracterization of what happened in 1781. When I teach this period, I try to get students to think ...
