Carolina on The Gamecock Codexhttps://gamecock.org/tags/carolina/Recent content in Carolina on The Gamecock CodexHugoen-us© 2026 The Gamecock Codex · An editorial encyclopediaMon, 20 Nov 1780 00:00:00 +0000Tarleton and the Gamecockhttps://gamecock.org/timeline/tarleton-gamecock/Mon, 20 Nov 1780 00:00:00 +0000https://gamecock.org/timeline/tarleton-gamecock/At the Battle of Blackstock’s Farm, Colonel Banastre Tarleton — having just failed to overrun the Patriot militia of Colonel Thomas Sumter — complains in his dispatch that the Carolinians ‘fought like a gamecock.’ The epithet sticks.