The Realtorian · Upcountry SC History
Heroes of the
Southern Campaign
The American Revolution in the Upcountry
The American Revolution was won in the South. Not in a single decisive battle, but in a brutal,
grinding guerrilla war fought across the swamps, hills, and backcountry of the Carolinas and Georgia.
The Upcountry of South Carolina was the heart of that struggle. Kings Mountain, Cowpens,
Musgrove's Mill, Blackstocks: these fields are within an hour's drive of Greenville and Spartanburg.
They are not distant history. They are your backyard.
For David Cole the Realtorian, this history is more than regional pride.
It runs in the blood. His relative Colonel Benjamin Roebuck commanded Roebuck's Battalion
of the Spartan Regiment of SC Militia. Joseph Cole Sr. marched with the Virginia militia
to join Washington's army outside Philadelphia in 1777, and later marched south with Gates's army
to Camden. Beyond these two men, the Roebuck, Pettit, and Harlan lines add still more
patriot ancestors and relatives to David's family tree, from Colonel Roebuck's brothers and the Pettits of the Upcountry
to Samuel Harlan, Aaron Harlan Sr., and the two George Harlans, the Hatter and the Farmer. This is their story, and the story of the men and women who fought
alongside them.