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Carolina Day: South Carolina's Fourth of July
By P.C. Graham
Society is an open-ended partnership between generations. The dead and the unborn are as much members of society as the living… —Edmond Burke
"Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island Near Charleston, June 28, 1776"
Color lithograph by Heppenmeimer & Maurer, NYC, 1875.
Shows Sergeant Jasper replacing the fallen 2nd South Carolina flag.
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Did you know that June 28th is an official holiday in the state of South Carolina? According to South Carolina’s Code of Laws, 53-3-149,
June twenty-eighth of each year, the anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sullivan in 1776, is declared to be "Carolina Day" in South Carolina.
Formerly known as Palmetto Day or Sergeant Jasper’s Day previous to 1875, this day marks one of the defining moments of our State and sets the tone for the major role South Carolina would play in the Colonial Rebellion against and subsequent secession from, the British government, although the holiday is largely unknown and rarely acknowledged outside of Charleston where it has been observed with some regularity since 1777, although its popularity waned during the mid-20th century.
Of course, South Carolina’s role in the first American War for Independence has been downplayed, if not entirely effaced from so-called American History by New England, New York, and New South text books. It was not always so.
For over 100 years, South Carolina schools used William Gilmore Simms’s The History of South Carolina as its text for teaching our children the history of their homeland.
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