"McCall's SC dragoons?" Topic
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| Ashokmarine | 01 Mar 2014 8:06 a.m. PST |
Does anyone know have any info of possible uniform? Thx |
| historygamer | 01 Mar 2014 9:03 a.m. PST |
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| Ashokmarine | 01 Mar 2014 9:19 a.m. PST |
They were at Cowpens and several engagements in South Carolina. Looks like I found my answer McCall's State Dragoons were likely commissioned with an eye toward countering these British provincials. Our target impression is to portray McCall's State Dragoons, who arrived for service, "equipped as Horsemen with swords and pistols". A member of McCall's Dragoons would have lived in the upstate or ‘back country' of frontier South Carolina. He was probably of English or Scots Irish descent, most likely protestant, and had probably seen militia service in the past against the Cherokee. He may well have served in General Rutherford's expedition against the Cherokee Nation in ‘76-‘77. Likely civilian professions for recruits would have been farmers, stockmen, millers, sawyers, coopers, tanners, wheelwrights, and blacksmiths – the frontier middle class, individuals who could equip themselves with a good horse and serviceable weapons. Keep in mind that McCall's Dragoons left home to fight the best army in the world, as a unit we should appear ‘well heeled' but not ‘issued'. |
| Ashokmarine | 01 Mar 2014 9:21 a.m. PST |
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| nevinsrip | 01 Mar 2014 2:20 p.m. PST |
I used Eureka's mounted militia to portray McCall's command.
When I get set up to take good pix I'll post them.
You can't go wrong with Eureka or Eureka USA. Both guys are top notch and the figures fit well with KMM.
I set up a scene of McCall's men (and Willie Washington's 3 rd Continental Cavalry) smashing into the Highlanders at Cowpens. Great stuff!! |
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