Tag: Siege of Augusta

Posted on September 29, 2014January 10, 2021

Victory for the Georgia Refugees

Smallpox raged across the backcountry in the late spring of 1781 and both of the Refugee commanders, Elijah Clarke and James McCall, caught the disease. Clarke was out of action for a month while McCall never returned at all, having died from the disease in March. During his time in bed, Colonel Clarke put plans […]

by Wayne Lynch

Posted on September 15, 2014August 28, 2016

Elijah Clarke and the Georgia Refugees Fight British Domination

With the fall of Charleston, British columns spread into the southern backcountry. All of Georgia was occupied and the state government simply melted into the frontier along with most of the Whig population. In late June the prominent militia leaders of the Ninety-Six district in South Carolina took parole along with most of their men. […]

by Wayne Lynch