The Siege of 96

In the quiet backcountry of South Carolina, a small trading village called Ninety Six became the unlikely center of a civil war within the American Revolution. It was a crossroads of trails and tempers, where Loyalists and Patriots clashed not just over independence, but over who truly represented justice and order.

In this episode, we look at the two sieges that defined Ninety Six: the first in 1775, when neighbors turned their guns on each other at Savage’s Old Fields, and the second in 1781, when General Nathanael Greene tried to break the British Star Fort. These battles tell a story of courage, confusion, and divided loyalties that tore the South apart.

Ninety Six reminds us that the Revolution was never just fought on distant battlefields. It was fought in backyards, in friendships, and in the hearts of ordinary people choosing between rebellion and the crown.