Command Briefing - Insignia of Patriotic Organizations.     This presentation will enable you to recognize the distinctive medals worn by members of the Patriotic Organizations who stand with the  SAR to commemorate the dedication and bravery of our forefathers.  Click the Command Briefing link to start the slideshow.

Opposing Views

 "Lord Cornwallis does not wish that you rise, but ready yourselves and gather the harvest, as the British Army will need provisions.  As soon as the harvest is in, the Army will enter North Carolina and support you."




    Lieutenant Colonel John Moore, NC Loyalist Volunteers, to a group of Tories, at Indian Creek, 7 miles from Ramsour's Mill, June, 1779		 ".... and  trusting to that fortune which sometimes crowns even rashness with success, it was unanimously resolved immediately to march at daybreak and attack the Tories."

 



    Captain Joseph Graham, post-war account of the Battle at Ramsour's Mill which occurred  June 19, 1779

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     Maj. Foy Edwin Privette Jr., U.S. Army (Retired) currently serves as the Western Area Vice President for the NCSSAR.  His was a rapid rise through the ranks of the SAR, after a 22 year career in the U.S. Army.  In less than 3 yeas with the SAR, he has held the position of Secretary, Vice President, and President of the Silas McDowell Chapter of the NCSSAR, then assumed duties as Western Area Vice President.

     Ed currently serves on the Historic Sites and Observances Committee, the Centennial and Congress Planning Committee, and chairs the Partners in Patriotism Committee.

     During a distinguished military career, Maj. Privette won a number of awards and citations: chief among them, 4 Bronze Star Medals (1 for Valor), the Purple Heart and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry while commanding an Infantry Company in the 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade.  As a direct result of his military service, Ed has been awarded the SAR Military Service Medal (Vietnam) and SAR Purple Heart Medal.

     Ed relates that his fondest memory of his initial entry into the SAR was the help and assistance given to him by CD Williams and John Higdon during the difficult period of getting the Silas McDowell Chapter revitalized after several years of inactivity.  His other greatest point of pride:  his Grandson, Nicholas P. Privette,  is currently in the upper 5 percent of his class (57 of 1130) at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.


     Thomas Erastus Redman was born about  1745 in Nelson County, Virginia.  It was there that he enlisted as a private in Captain James Johnson's 6th Virginia Regiment which fought in the American Revolutionary War.  This unit crossed the Delaware with George Washington and fought in the battles at Trenton and Princeton, NJ. This information is recorded in the Publication "The Old Free State", page 218, Vol. 1.   Family tradition has it that in 1779, he married Mary Elizabeth Tapley, also of Virginia, then moved to Iredell County, NC.   They had 11 children.  

   Records indicate that Thomas Redman purchased nearly fifteen hundred acres of land, some of it may have been sold, but most of it was deeded to his children. When his estate was settled, an inventory list discloses many interesting items;  among them were two stills, tubs, pewter plates, pewter basin, a desk, a Bible, and a spelling book indicating that he was a man of some education. He was also able to sign his name to his will.  In his will he lists eight slaves by name.  Indications are that Elizabeth was also dead when the will was probated in 1836. They are buried in a small family cemetery in northwestern Iredell County, on land that still remains in the Redman family.


From a family history at Rootsweb.com by
Alto Lee and Elizabeth Redmond
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