Dr. C. L. “Chip” Bragg is a practicing anesthesiologist in Thomasville, Georgia. His lifelong passion for American history has resulted in the publication of three books: Distinction in Every Service: Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, C.S.A. (White Mane, 2001), the critically acclaimed Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia (University of South Carolina Press, 2007) of which he is coauthor, and Crescent Moon Over Carolina: William Moultrie and American Liberty (University of South Carolina Press, 2013). Chip’s next book, Martyr of the American Revolution: The Execution of Isaac Hayne, South Carolinian, is scheduled for a late-2016 release by the University of South Carolina Press, and he has contributed a chapter to a forthcoming compilation of essays about loyalists.
“What say you now, Sir Peter Parker!”[1] The high and mighty will sometimes do seemingly odd things in order to make a point. Like, for instance, having oneself rowed into a channel in front of Fort Moultrie to see if the water’s depth was sufficient to accommodate an attacking ship. The date was May 27, […]
