True for the Cause of Liberty: The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution

"Persuasively tells the savage partisan war in the Carolina backcountry . . . [during] the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" (Military Review).

Following their defeat at Saratoga in New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a southern strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to "roll up" the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Untrained Patriot militiamen-occasionally stiffened by contingents of the Continental Line-were pitted ...