• Azaleas bloom in the lower parking lot at the Cowpens National Battlefield Visitor Center.

    Cowpens

    National Battlefield South Carolina

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  • Closures for Week of May 13 - 19

    The Loop Road and Trailhead Parking Lot will be closed to pedestrian, horse, bicycle, and vehicle traffic for fog seal application from Wednesday, May 15 - Sunday, May 19, 2013. The interpretive Battlefield Trail will still be open to pedestrian traffic.

Places

simple map of Southern Campaign
The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution is frequently ignored by the history books.
 

Revolutionary War Timeline - based on From Savannah to Yorktown, by Dr. Henry Lumpkin

The Green River (Mills Gap) Road - the road the Americans and the British took to get to the Cow Pens

Did You Know?

small arms fire

The range of the American long rifle is approximately 250 yards.
The range of the smooth bore musket is approximately 50 yards.