Heroes and Villains

Captain John Henry Felder was a passionate, freedom-loving German-Swiss American patriot. He arrived with his parents as a young man, nine years old, from Zurich, Switzerland in 1735. Both of Henry’s parents passed on soon after, leaving him 350 acres of land in the...

John Rutledge Jr. was an American Founding Father and very involved in the American Revolution in South Carolina between 1770 and 1783. He was a politician, and served as the first president of South Carolina in the provisional government during the war and after the...

Catherina was the resourceful second wife of Captain Henry Felder, Sr. Being a frontier wife, she was skilled in many ways to maintain a homestead and also birthed six children with Henry Felder. In the years leading to the war for independence, she and Felder’s sons...

EDWARD GREEN - Mr. Green is a fictional character based on a portion of the population during the war comprised of free black men who were abducted in the  north and carried south to be sold as slaves. Captain Henry Felder did not believe in slavery so it was decided...

JOHN FELDER was born December 1751, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, while it was still part of British Colonial America. His father, Captain Hans Heinrich “Henry” Felder Sr, was  26 and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Schaumlöffel, was 28. He was a resourceful young man,...

HENRY FELDER JR.  - PATRIOT MILITIA FIGHTER (1748  - 1803) Henry Jr. had to grow up fast as the troubles with British rule of the colonies was heating up. He was twenty eight in 1776 when it became clear his father wanted him to fight with his militia under William...

SAWGRASS - CATAWBA PATRIOT SOLDIER The character of Sawgrass in All for Liberty is fictional, but based on the immense contributions of the Catawba Nation during the American Revolution. Sawgrass is portrayed as a treasured  friend and a set of “our eyes in the...

MISS ALICE - TAVERN OWNER/SPY Alice, the owner of the tavern, is a fictional character. Her tavern was a meeting place for both Patriots and Loyalists in the course of the film, All For Liberty. Alice is based on women who inherited taverns from a ship captain husband...

MISS MOLLY - CURRIER, SPY Molly is a fictional character based on the historical record of various women who were significant in gathering  information and getting intelligence to Patriot leaders. They were willing to risk their lives for the idea of freedom for all...

THOMAS  SUMTER -  MILITARY HERO/BRIGADIER GENERAL Thomas Sumter was a brilliant tactician and leader in the Southern Campaign of the War for American Independence, in the Continental Army and South Carolina Militia, earning the moniker, "The Fighting Gamecock." His...