Author: Charles Hugh Brown

Charles Hugh Brown is a historian and author based in Florida. A graduate of Jacksonville University, where he studied History and Political Science, he has written on the American Revolution in the South, with a special focus on Loyalist experiences. His most recent novel, The Loyal Opposition, explores the life of his ancestor Hugh Brown, a Loyalist officer exiled after the Siege of Ninety Six. Brown is also the author of Master Jones Goes to Washington, a memoir of his time as a congressional page in 1968. A veteran songwriter, his works include a soundtrack to The Loyal Opposition.

The War Years (1775-1783) Posted on November 4, 2025November 3, 2025

Moses Kirkland and the Origins of the Southern Strategy

Moses Kirkland was a man born into the unsettled margins of South Carolina, where ambition and survival often blurred together. By the mid-1770s he was a planter of modest means, a militia captain in the backcountry, and a restless figure whose loyalties shifted with the winds of opportunity. In the opening year of the Revolution, […]

by Charles Hugh Brown