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Title: From Savannah to Yorktown : The American Revolution in the South by Henry Lumpkin ISBN: 0-595-00097-5 Publisher: iUniverse.com Pub. Date: 31 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good overall account of the war in the South
Comment: I recommend this book for those interested in a clear ande concise narrative account of the American Revolution in the South. Although not as dramatic as Buchanan's THE ROAD TO GUILFORD COURTHOUSE (which I do not recommend) Lumpkin's book is well worth reading and generally accurate. His analysis is solid, a description I would not give to THE ROAD TO GUILFORD COURTHOUSE.
Rating: 3
Summary: Revolutionary War: 1st seige of Augusta, Sep 1780
Comment: There were only 2 paragraphs in this book that referenced the 1st Seige of Augusta in which my 6th great grandfather was murdered by the Cherokee. But, these 2 paragraphs were poignant and brutally honest and left me in tears.
This book is well-researched,well-documented, frank, honest,detailed,the author is a respected historian, and this book goes directly to the point...if you are seeking genuine information concerning the Revolutionary War, buy this book!!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Long Road Back
Comment: The southern campaigns of the Revolution, starting with the disastrous defeat at Camden in August 1780 and culminating in Greene's successful containment of the British in the seaports of Charleston and Savannah. Greene never won an engagement, but never lost a campaign. In many ways he was the American Turenne, relentlessly campaigning through the Carolinas, respected and feared by his enemies, diligently followed by his disciplined, intrepid, and indefatigable Continentals, and served by a talented, tough group of subordinates such as Robert Kirkwood, Otho Williams, William Washinton, John Howard, and Edward Carrington. It was there, in the humid south, that the Revolution was won. It was the mauling given the British at Guilford Couthouse in March 1781, so soon after Camden, that drove Cornwallis to the decision to go into Virginia and to Yorktown. In that alone, the campaign was decisive.
Lumpkin tells the story with wit, vigor, relentlessness, but not a few errors, which are minor. It is well-illustrated (I especially liked the picture of a member of Lee's Legion done by Clyde Risley-one of my favorite military artists), and the appendices are very helpful. In some areas of smaller detail, the book should be used with caution, but if used in conjunction with Wright's Continental Army and Ward's War of the Revolution, it is a reliable reference, a good story, and gives these long-forgotten campaigns a deserved look and the men who conducted the war in this theater long overdue recognition.
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Title: The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas by John Buchanan ISBN: 0471327166 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution by Walter B. Edgar ISBN: 0380977605 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens by Lawrence E. Babits ISBN: 080784926X Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Swamp Fox by Robert D. Bass ISBN: 0878440518 Publisher: Sandlapper Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1781 (Major Battles and Campaigns ; 3) by W. J. Wood, John S. D. Eisenhower ISBN: 0306806177 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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