Blood and Thunder on Bloody Point Bloody Point is aptly name, an Indian battle-ground since time immemorial. Tribes fought tribes here long before the coming of the white man. And when the white m an came there were battles fought here too. Birthplace of America? Forget Lexington Bridge, when the New England militia faced down the British army. The birthplace of America was right here off Bloody Point, where patriots stole a shipload of British gunpowder and used it to turn an invasion of Charleston on June 28, 1770. Word was relayed by horseback to Philadelphia where the Second Continental Congress was in session. Emboldened, Congress signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4. Two Civil War veteran built the Bloody Point light, men who fought on opposite sides. Doyle was the Yankee and Lacoste a Confederate hero, and their work survived the two worst natural disasters in South Carolina history, and earthquake and a hurricane safely guiding ships into the post of Savannah for the next half century. |
