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Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of DorchesterNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 Set in September of 1780, Katharine Walton is
the third installment of a trilogy that follows The Partisan and Mellichampein
covering the Revolution in South Carolina.[1] While The Partisan and Mellichampe are
set in the interior of the Santee and Wateree rivers, Katharine Walton takes
the reader to the city of Charleston in 1780-81 to trace the social world of
South Carolina under British occupation.[2] The city functions narratively as a
“unifying center,” according to John C. Guilds, to free Katharine
Walton of the “awkward shifts in action and setting ... |
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Mellichampe: A Legend of the SanteeNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 The second of eight novels in the Revolutionary War series,
William Gilmore Simms’s Mellichampe was originally published
by Harper in 1836, then revised and republished in the Redfield edition in
1854. The story follows the fictional band of Francis Marion’s partisans
in the fall of 1780 after the Battle of Camden, as they engage in guerrilla
warfare on the Santee River against loyalist and British forces. In his
advertisement to the first edition, Simms considered Mellichampe a
“Historical romance” that accurately conveyed the career of Marion[1] to the “very ... |
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The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the RevolutionBiography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1849 Simms was interested in the American
Revolution throughout his career, writing significant works about the conflict in
both fiction and nonfiction. By 1840, he
had already produced the first edition of his History of South Carolina as well as two of his Revolutionary
Romances, all of which are works largely concerned with the effect of the
Revolution on his native state. Around
this same time, Simms had decided to complement this work by writing biographies. In April 1840, he wrote to James Lawson that
he was “meditating and taking notes for several Biographies—say ... |
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The Scout; or, the Black Riders of Congaree.Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 William Gilmore Simms’s third novel of the Revolutionary
War (though fifth in order of plot chronology) was originally published in 1841
under the title The Kinsmen. It became an early offering as part of the
Redfield edition under its more popularly-known title The Scout in 1854. A novel
of familial conflict in the context of war and a broad-minded exploration of
patriotism across classes, The Scout
opens shortly after the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill (aka the Second Battle of
Camden)[1] in May 1781. The action ends with the British departure
from the Star Fort at Ninety ... |