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Conner Runyan

Conner Runyan

Conner Runyan was a teacher, administrator and professor for forty-one years in Alabama’s public schools and universities. Now retired, he and his wife Carolyn live in Fyffe, Alabama.

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The War Years (1775-1783) January 16, 2018 January 9, 2018

Across the River: The Failure of the American Southern Strategy along the Savannah River

Hidden in the Nineteenth Century histories of Georgia is a likely answer to a question that has puzzled students of the American Revolution in…

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People September 27, 2017 September 3, 2017

The Widow’s Apron: Life, Death, and a Forgotten Skirmish Along the Old Blackstock Road

This is the story, such as it can be told, of one long forgotten woman in the midst of the revolutionary war, a weaver…

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People July 12, 2017 July 9, 2017

Offering of the Ladies: Esther Reed’s Sentiments, Washington’s Objections

Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin and, to a much greater extent, lesser notables such as Reed, Rush, Morris and dozens more profoundly understood what…

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The War Years (1775-1783) May 25, 2017 May 25, 2017

We Have Sacrificed Our All

“We Have Sacrificed Our All.” Thus, stated eleven loyalist officers from Ninety-Six and Camden Districts of South Carolina in a petition intended for the…

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The War Years (1775-1783) October 12, 2016 September 18, 2016

Skirmish at the Thomas House: America’s First Sniper Team?

Even under the strange, somewhat inept leadership of Loyalist Col. John Moore, the task of hampering Spartanburg’s Fair Forest role as a Patriot stronghold…

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The War Years (1775-1783) May 12, 2016 August 28, 2016

Did the First Cedar Springs Skirmish really happen?

Select any narrative from the dozens of sources that tell the story of what happened on July 12, 1780 at Cedar Springs, South Carolina,…

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Arts & Literature September 2, 2015 August 28, 2016

The Monument That Never Was

Everything we know about Brig. Gen. Andrew Williamson leads to one question: Did he become a traitor to the Patriot cause—the “Arnold of the…

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