Up a Tree

 I began idly clicking one day through the section of our family tree that branches off from Sharon's father and ran across an entry that was accompanied by the picture, below right,  of a postcard stamp honoring the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. As best as I can tell, the USPS issued the stamp to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle. I showed Sharon the picture, and because it showed up on the tree entry of one her ancestors, Capt. John Weir, mistakenly assumed that he was the soldier pictured. Once I began reading about the battle, I understood that he was not the soldier pictured. Still, I had to look up the battle, as I don't recall having ever heard of it before. This is not surprising because I've read little about the Revolutionary War, and if my school texts mentioned the battle, I either missed it or completely forgot about it. The National Parks Service administers a national military park in South Carolina at the site of the battle and and its website sta