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Major General William Moultrie, 1730 – 1805
Commander of Second South Carolina Regiment During the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, June 28, 1776.
When offered inducements by Lord Charles Hontagu to desert the American cause, General Moultrie replied “…You have forgot to tell me how I am to get rid of the feelings of an injured honest heart, and where to hide myself from myself… this would be a fatal exchange from my present situation with an easy and approved conscience of having done my duty, and conducted myself as a man of honor.”
The remains of General Moultrie were recovered from Windsor Hill Plantation, Charleston County, and reinterred at Fort Moultrie, 1978.
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