My loyalist ancestor went after one of my rebel ancestors with a saber during a parley at the siege of Fort Granby during the first US civil war in the 1770s. He called him a “damned rebel” and tried to cut off his head. It apparently caused something of a stir with the officers. Their father and grandfather had been one of the three hundred loyalists murdered in South Carolina by rebels early on and was mentioned in a petition to the Crown.
