As a member of the Guilford Battleground Company, I received a mailer a while ago about the event. A new roadside marker honoring Judge David Schenk (1835-1902), the founder of the Guilford Battleground Company which helped preserve the major Revolutionary War southern battlefield. It was here that this technical British victory so decimated Cornwallis's troops that he retreated to the coast at Wilmington to resupply, then decided the Carolinas could not be taken. He instead marched into Virginia to Yorktown, and you know how it ends from there.
The featured speaker was Joshua B. Howard, co-author of the newest volume dissecting the battle: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody - the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. As a history groupie, I did manage to get mine signed:
It was a stately little ceremony. Color guard, fife and drum, and many of Judge Schenck's descendants on hand for the event. A pleasant warm Tuesday afternoon in an old cemetery.
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