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Battle of the Waxhaws:
Tarleton, Buford and the Myth of Massacre

SCAR is pleased to announce that we will publish Jim Piecuch's new book Battle of the Waxhaws: Tarleton, Buford and the Myth of Massacre. This new book explores this one-sided victory of British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton over Col. Abraham Buford on May 29, 1780. Buford's Defeat solidified Tarleton's reputation as "the butcher" and "bloody Ban" in Patriots' minds and Tarleton as a British war hero from their point of view. As a revisionist historian, Piecuch studies the source documents and challenges the 227 year old assumptions of Tarleton's intent, complicity and guilt in the slaughter of the Virginia Continentals that May afternoon in South Carolina. He also looks at Col. Buford's tactical command decisions and their contributions to his defeat.

Graphics artist and period scholar Rob McCaskill has added his skills to make an informative book more pleasing to the eye.

For the release date, pricing and distribution information, please visit this site again.

Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina

Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina is hot off the press. It is the first and only guide to the Revolutionary War that locates all the battles, skirmishes and murders known with GPS coordinates for an entire state. Parker’s Guide includes maps, directions and a brief account of the action for each of the over 400 sites and actions in South Carolina during the Revolution. This guide will be a reference work well into the future.

Here are some comments of those who have used Parker’s Guide:

If only I could have used Parker’s Guide when doing boots-on-the-ground research for my work on Francis Marion. Other sources came nowhere close to its breadth and depth. With this guidebook you know the location of the action, how to get there and what really happened. Grab Parker’s Guide and live the Revolutionary War in South Carolina.
David Neilan, Editor
The Correspondence of General Francis Marion

Jack Parker has related many of the relatively unknown incidents of treachery, ambush, and murder, as well as the major confrontations and battles. Given its scope, it is obvious that this work will be useful not only to the tourist or curiosity seeker, but as a reference work for students, libraries, and museums, and as a source for other researchers of Revolutionary War history.
R.M. Huckeby, Editor

To pick up your copy of Parker’s Guide for $37.75, attend the “Blood Be Upon Your Head” Tarleton and Buford at the Waxhaws, February 27, 2010, Lancaster, SC.

Or send a check or money order for $43.75 for each copy of Parker’s Guide to: Parker’s Guide, P.O. Box 357, Patrick, SC 29584. Include your mailing address, phone number, E-mail address and the number of guides ordered.

Last updated January 20, 2010

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