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Its date is known as Carolina Day in the state, and the palmetto logs the regiment used for the fortress were added to the Moultrie Flag used to rally the troops, creating the Flag of South Carolina. The regiment saw action at the Siege of Savannah , where elements from the British 60th Royal Americans captured their regimental Colour , [ 4 ...
Upper Saluda District Militia/ Regiment [note 2] 2nd Brigade February 1775 September 1775 Thomas Fletchall, Col [19] [20] 1st Spartan Regiment 2nd Brigade (1778–1780) February 1777 John Thomas, Sr., Col [21] 2nd Spartan Regiment 2nd Brigade (1778–1780) Col Sumter (backcountry) (1780) February 1777 Thomas Brandon, Col [22]
At the Peach Orchard the 2nd advanced with two other units of Kershaw's Brigade, the 3rd SC Battalion and the 8th SC Infantry, through the orchard and eventually came under strong artillery fire. Thousands of pieces of shrapnel and canister hit their lines, and the 2nd lost about 50% of their numbers when an unknown officer ordered the regiment ...
Revolutionary War units: 6th Regiment of militia, 1780–1781 [8] 7th Regiment of militia, 1782 [8] Abbott's Regiment of militia, 1781 [8] Clark's Company of militia, 1778–1780 [8] Durkee's Company of militia, 1780–1781 [8] Green Mountain Boys, 1777; Herrick's Regiment, 1775–83; Hoar's Company of militia, 1780 [8] Marsh's Regiment, 1777
That means low bidders on any flag contract can make the tree look too weak or the crescent more like a moon than the cap badges of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment from the Revolutionary War on ...
The Continental Congress resolved, on November 4, 1775 to adopt two infantry regiments in South Carolina. The 1st and 2nd South Carolina Regiments were existing formations that had been authorized by the colony in June. Georgia Line: The Continental Congress resolved, on November 4, 1775 to authorized one infantry regiment in Georgia. Georgia ...
The reraising of the flag was commemorated on the South Carolina quarter of the America the Beautiful quarters. The flag is flown by the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) to honor the ship's namesake Paul Hamilton , a South Carolinian who was a Revolutionary War soldier, the United States’ third Secretary of the Navy, and the 42nd governor of South ...
William Jasper (c. 1750 – October 9, 1779) was an American soldier in the Revolutionary War.He was a sergeant in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment.. Jasper distinguished himself in the defense of Fort Moultrie (then called Fort Sullivan) on June 28, 1776.