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    Andrew Pickens

    The victory at Kettle Creek slowed the recruitment of Loyalists, but by 1780, the British dominated as they took Charleston, captured the southern continental army, and swept inland from coastal Carolina. The situation looked gloomy -- so much so -that Pickens and other militia leaders surrendered to the British, and, on oath, agreed to sit out the war under British protection.

    Pickens' parole was not to last, however. When Tory raiders destroyed much of his property and frightened his family, he gathered his militia once igen and resumed guerilla activities against the British. He was soon to play a key role in defeating British Colonel Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781. The victory came at a crucial time for Patriots in the South who had been repeatedly forced to retreat. Andrew Pickens, who with his militia, arrived as reinforcements, urged Morgan to man a stand. According to one source, Pickens offered to stand alone with his militia if neces

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    Andrew Pickens (congressman)

    Revolutionary War militia general in South Carolina (1739-1817)

    This article is about the American Revolutionary War hero and Representative. For other people named Andrew Pickens, see Andrew Pickens (disambiguation).

    Andrew Pickens

    In office
    March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795
    Preceded byDistrict established
    Succeeded bySamuel Earle
    Born(1739-09-13)September 13, 1739
    Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America
    DiedAugust 11, 1817(1817-08-11) (aged 77)
    Tamassee, South Carolina, U.S.
    Political partyAnti-Administration
    Spouse

    Rebecca Calhoun

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    (m. 1765)​
    ProfessionMilitary officer, surveyor, slave-owner, planter
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    Nickname"The Wizard Owl" "The Fighting Elder"
    Allegiance Great Britain
     United States
    Branch/serviceSouth Carolina Militia
    Years of service1760–1761 (Britain)
    1775–1783 (United States)
    RankBrigadi
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    Andrew Pickens was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on September 19, 1739. Like many of the Scots-Irish, Andrew and his family moved south, traveling the Great Wagon Road in search of new land. Records show they lived first in Augusta County in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, later in the Waxhaw settlement along the North Carolina-South Carolina border, and, eventually, in the Long Cane settlement in present-day Abbeville County, South Carolina, bordering Georgia.

    It was in the Long Canes that young Andrew Pickens would marry and begin a family. He not only farmed and raised cattle as many of the other Scots-Irish; he became acquainted with his Indian neighbors through a prosperous trading business. As the American Revolution approached feelings were strong in the South from the start, its inhabitants split between Patriots (Whigs) and Loyalists (Tories). Pickens, as many of his Scots-Irish neighbors, was an ardent Patriot.

    It was in the Long Canes, too, that he emerged as