I want to make a one-time announcement about an upcoming symposium which
will be of interest to many in the field of Virginia and the Revolutionary
War.  April 26-28 will be a symposium on "Banastre Tarleton and the War of
the Revolution in the South," hosted by the Kershaw County Historical
Society and Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, in Camden, SC.
Tarleton served in Virginia during 1781, and surrendered with Cornwallis at
Yorktown that year.

The web address for additional information is
http://www.bantarletonsymposium.homestead.com/index.html.

Speakers include:

Robert Olwell. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1991; presently associate professor at
the University of Texas, in the field of colonial America. Proposed
presentation: Banastre Tarleton's (and by extension the entire British
Army's) attitude toward slavery and treatment of African-Americans during
the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas.


Gregory J. W. Urwin, Professor of History, Temple University. General
Editor of Campaigns and Commanders, University of Oklahoma Press.
Presentation: "Cornwallis and the Slaves of Virginia:  A New Look at the
Yorktown Campaign." including the role of light dragoons and hussars of
Tarleton's British Legion and Simcoe's Queen's Rangers on confiscated
Virginia thoroughbreds liberating large armies of slaves, and destroying
the property of Patriots.  Urwin is a professor of history at Temple
University, where he is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Force
and Diplomacy.  He next plans to write a new book about Lord Charles
Cornwallis and the latter's 1781 Virginia Campaign.


Mark Danley, Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University. Proposed
presentation: The circumstances of the publication of Tarleton's book, A
History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of
North America, with an emphasis on the place his writing has in the context
of British military writing in the eighteenth-century.

Anthony J. Scotti, Jr., received his Ph.D. from the University of South
Carolina. He is presently, History Series Editor at Manly, Inc., Columbia,
SC.  His talk is entitled "The Myths of Bloody Tarleton." It will focus on
the American and British perceptions of Banastre Tarleton and the British
Legion as well as analyze their impact on the Southern Campaigns. His book
Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion will be published by Heritage
Books in 2002.


Dr. John Moncure, of Camden, SC, will speak on "Tarleton in Context:
Cavalry in the 18th Century."

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