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The American second line of defense stood here. About sunrise, the British appeared. The militia, though not trained to stand against massed British bayonets, fought well and shot with deadly effect. As Thomas Young, a seventeen-year-old militiaman of the Fair Forest Regiment, recalled, "At first it was pop, pop, pop [the sound of the rifles,] and then the whole volley. It seemed like one sheet of flame from right to left."
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Chesnee, South Carolina · United States
