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Walter Edgar's Journal: 'This fierce people' - the untold story of America's Revolutionary War in the South

"Death of Major Ferguson at King's Mountain."
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library
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"Death of Major Ferguson at King's Mountain."

This week on the Journal we will be talking with Alan Pell Crawford about his book, This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South (2024, Alfred A. Knopf). In his book Alan tells the story of three-plus years in the Revolutionary war, and of the fierce battles fought in the South that made up the central theater of military operations in the latter years of the War.

And it was in these bloody battles that the British were, in essence, vanquished.

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Dr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.