Following the Swamp Fox Mural Trail

Mural Trail, Manning, S.C.

Did you know we had a mural trail in South Carolina? Throughout rural towns in Clarendon County, murals painted on the sides of buildings tell the story of Revolutionary hero General "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion.  Not everything is open on the weekends but I can recommend D & H BBQ for some yummy barbeque, cat fish stew and pecan pie.

Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society

   The Swamp Fox, General Francis Marion and his engagements with the British in 1780-81 in St. Mark's Parish,  now Clarendon County,  depicting history on Historic murals in Manning, Paxville, Summerton & Turbeville.  Every mural tells a story of the events of the American Revolution in South Carolina. 

Revolutionary Medicine

Revolutionary War re-enactment, Middleton Place, Charleston, S.C.

I soon discovered that re-enactment army surgeon Larry Tillman, at the encampment at Middleton Place this weekend is himself a medical school professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Medicine has a little more to offer these days. 

At that time they were big on bleeding and purging. They seemed to want their patients leaking from everywhere....bleeding, purging, cupping and carefully placed leeches. If that didn't cure a soldier, they had hacksaws to cut something off. The round dishes in the front show the size of the vaccination wound from smallpox vaccinations at the time. Yikes. These are the good old days of medicine right now. 

I have the good doctor's email (oooops) address because I promised to send him a picture of an antique medical kit someone brought to me. I have a sneaky feeling what I have is more Civil War period. I don't see much evidence of kits in the 1780's.