Patriots – People in American who were in favor of separation from England and the formation of a separate country.
Redcoats – The name that Patriots called British soldiers.
Tory / Tories – Another name for Loyalists.
Waxhaws – The name given to a geographical region along the borders of North and South Carolina just south of Charlotte.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Geoff Baggett is a small town pastor in rural Kentucky. Though his formal education and degrees are in the fields of chemistry, biology, and Christian theology, his hobbies and obsessions (according to his wife) are genealogy and Revolutionary War history. He is an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution and has discovered over twenty Patriot ancestors in his family tree from the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
Geoff is an avid living historian, appearing regularly in period uniform in classrooms, reenactments, and other Revolutionary War commemorative events throughout the southeastern United States. He lives on a small piece of land in rural Trigg County, Kentucky, with his amazing wife, a daughter and grandson, and a yard full of fruit trees and perpetually hungry chickens and goats.
Little Hornet: Boy Patriot of North Carolina (Kid Patriots of the American Revolution Book 1) Page 9
