Rediscovering Dr. Henry Woodward's Carolina Frontier 1665-1686 - Paperback

by Jeff Fulgham (Author)

Before Charles Town was established on the banks of the Ashley River in 1670, a reconnaissance expedition was sent by the Lords Proprietors to explore today's South Carolina Lowcountry. After meeting with the Natives and surveying the region from Edisto to Hilton Head, the two sailing vessels prepared for departure. Before setting sail, however, the English left one man behind to make preparations for the first wave of settlers at Port Royal. Dr. Henry Woodward, a young surgeon, was to live among and learn the language of the Cusabo Indians. Woodward would become Carolina's chief interpreter, explorer, and ambassador to the Natives. As agent to the Proprietors, he served at the epicenter of the Spanish-English struggle for the territory that is now Georgia. Woodward's contributions to the colony in its formative years would prove to be immeasurable, and now his expeditions enable posterity to rediscover the seventeenth-century Carolina frontier.

Author Biography

Jeff Fulgham was born in Savannah, Georgia and spent most of his early life in Bluffton, South Carolina. At age 22 he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and has since served a combined 20 years in the Navy and South Carolina Army National Guard, from which he retired in 2018. Jeff completed four deployments to the continent of Asia from the Middle East to the Far East and served in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where as a squad leader he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals. As a Guardsman he led disaster response teams during the South Carolina Flood of 2015 and Hurricane Mathew in 2016. With the assistance of the GI Bill, Staff Sergeant Fulgham earned a B.A. in History from American Public University and began working in the historical field. Mr. Fulgham has contributed as an editor on two South Carolina historical marker projects, has written numerous articles and is the author of The Bluffton Expedition: The Burning of Bluffton, South Carolina, during the Civil War.