Reverend Alexander Craighead, the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Foothills Fight for Independence
by
Richard P. Plumer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Charlotte was a hotbed of Revolutionary activity well before the fervency of revolt reached its boiling point in New England. Considered a wild frontier region at the time, Mecklenburg County welcomed the Reverend Alexander Craighead with ready hands for battle. Craighead's fiery rhetoric inspired the...