In Backcountry Resistance, Carl P. Borick delivers a groundbreaking account of the citizen militia that defied British forces in South Carolina’s volatile Backcountry during the pivotal Southern campaign of the Revolutionary War. Focusing on rank-and-file militiamen, Borick explores how these ordinary men were recruited, armed, fed, and motivated. Drawing on underused pension records and state claims, he reconstructs their everyday realities and their battlefield experiences. He also examines the war’s devastating effects on civilians, including enslaved people and women, who played crucial roles in the struggle.

Carl P. Borick is director of the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of “Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782” (USC Press, 2011) and “A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780” (USC Press, 2012).

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