Wars Within Wars - Carolina Remade

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 16m

South Carolina had won its battles and was still losing its war. Eight months after the Good Friday massacre, the colony was ringed, starving, and unable to finish a fight it could not afford to lose — and its survival came down to three hundred men marching into the mountains to ask an alliance of the Cherokee, a people who owed them nothing and had already killed Carolina’s soldiers once. This episode follows the war to its turn: Governor Craven’s militia on the open field at Salkehatchie; Colonel Maurice Moore and George Chicken in the most ancient town in the Cherokee country; the Creek…