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“minutemen” who gave as much as they got, however, they were outnumbered by
the English.

In June 1775 GEORGE WASHINGTON was appointed by Congress as
commander of the Continental Army. Outside Boston Washington found 17,000
men in a disorganized army that lacked food, clothing, equipment, training, and
discipline. He set to work to restore some sort of order.

Battles on land and sea continued. They spread to New York and New Jersey and
Pennsylvania and Vermont and Maryland and Virginia and by 1776 fighting had
reached North Carolina where the FOYs lived.

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THINGS WERE DIFFERENT IN THE SOUTH

The South was different from the North in its feelings and was not as quick to
rebel against the Crown. The economy of the South was based upon plantations
and slave holding. The South was suspicious of “hot-headed radicals” like
PATRICK HENRY and others. Wealthy planters, such as the FOYs, were
conservative. They dreaded riots and rebellion. Patriots moved cautiously in the
South, even after the Continental Congress virtually declared war upon the
British Crown in June 1775.

There were two kinds of people living in the South so far as the war was
concerned. There were the Loyalist, those who supported the English Crown, and

there were the Patriots, those who supported the spirit of freedom from English
control. Patriots were also called rebels.

By the summer of 1775 the patriots outnumbered the Royalist and began to cause
problems for the English governors of South Carolina, North Carolina and
Virginia. They literally ran the two Carolina governors out of town for a while.
These two governors later got together with a British Earl and the governor of
Virginia and made plans to return.

The English decided to send troops into the South to re-establish royal control and

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