America250: Battles of Our Coast — Waccamaw River, February 15, 1781

February 15, 1781 — Horry County, SC. 🇺🇸

Our final story crosses the state line.

Loyalist Lt. John Wilson rode to the Waccamaw River and seized Patriot Capt. John Clarke — at Clarke’s own home.

No armies. No cannons. Just the brutal, personal war that raged along the Waccamaw: neighbors hunting neighbors, raids and counter-raids, while Francis Marion’s partisans fought the British across the Lowcountry.

This is the war our grandparents’ grandparents lived through — not on distant battlefields, but in their own yards and river landings.

Eight stories. One coast. 250 years of freedom.

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