Backcountry Resistance

"An exceptionally fine account by Carl P. Borick of the final years of the American Revolution. With clarity, balance, and impeccable scholarship, Backcountry Resistance illuminates the vital importance of South Carolina militia forces in thwarting Britain's military ambitions in the South."—Rick Atkinson, New York Times bestseller and author of The Fate of the Day

"In Backcountry Resistance, Carl P. Borick offers fresh perspectives on a long-neglected chapter of America's War for Independence."—Alan Pell Crawford, author of This Fierce People

"Carl P. Borick has crafted a nuanced, wide-ranging, and moving history of the civil war that spiraled across the South Carolina Backcountry in 1780-81."—Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University, author of Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

"Carl P. Borick's Backcountry Resistance is a superb addition to the increasingly appreciated recognition of the significance of the American Revolution in South Carolina. It chronicles the story of ordinary men and women who chose to oppose the British occupation—and their Loyalist neighbors—to turn the tide in what was not only a struggle for independence, but also this country's first civil war."—Walter Edgar, author of South Carolina: A History

"This groundbreaking work explores neglected aspects of South Carolina's partisan war, including how units were raised and supplied, to explain the militia's crucial battlefield victories."—Jim Piecuch, author of Three Peoples, One King