Revolutionary War Day at the SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum

For eight long years, the young United States – which at the start of the conflict wasn’t even formed yet, and had no army, navy, or national government – was at war with the greatest superpower in the world. And we won.

And as celebrated as Bunker Hill and Yorktown deservedly are, most of the battles took place right here in South Carolina – at places such as Ninety Six, Sullivan’s Island, Camden, Kings Mountain and Cowpens. The fighting produced heroes whose names we still recall, such as the Fighting Gamecock, Thomas Sumter, and the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion.