Person:Lewis Adkins (5)

Lewis Atkins Military File Source:

General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers: (Record Group 93; M860; Roll #2 NARA)

Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War: (Record Group 93; M881; Roll #'s 952; 957; 977 NARA)

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files: (Record Group 93; M804; Roll #86

Revolutionary War Soldier

All his descendants should be proud of Lewis Adkins for his long and very hard seven years service in the Revolutionary War. Only a VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE of the soldiers in this war fought as long as seven years. He suffered through the early defeats and retreats at Brandywine and Germantown. He also went through the terrible winter at Valley Forge with General George Washington.

At the fall of Charleston, SC. he was one of only a handful of men from his brigade who escaped capture and prison for the rest of the war, on the right flank in the first line, a very exposed and dangerous position call "Post of Honor". His decimated regiment then became part of the group that went to South Carolina and Georgia to fight the rest of the war. He was wounded in Georgia in 1782. He was a "chip off the old block" of his GG Grandfather, Richard Adkins, who had fought in Bacon's Rebellion, the first armed revolt against the British in 1676, exactly 100 years before Lewis enlisted in the Revolutionary War in 1776.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Doris Adkins Wells,(Dec'd). 1982.
2. ↑ Source (90).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Barney Hunter. The Adkins and Related Families, Three hundred and Fifty Years in America.