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[[File:Heyward House 18 Charleston.jpg|Right|200px|thumb|Thomas Heyward House at 18 Meeting St., Charleston, South Carolina]]

[[File:Heyward House 18 Charleston.jpg|Right|200px|thumb|Thomas Heyward House at 18 Meeting St., Charleston, South Carolina]]

==Revolutionary War==

==Revolutionary War==

Judge Heyward also participated in the military perils of "the times that tried men's souls." He commanded a company of [[artillery]] at the battle of [[Beaufort]], and was severely wounded. At the attack upon [[Savannah]] he was also actively engaged. At the siege of [[Charleston]] he commanded a [[battalion]], but was taken prisoner by the British along with two other Founders [[Edward Rutledge]] and [[Arthur Middleton]].  They were transferred to [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] and held at St. Mark's.<ref>http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000555</ref> During his absence, his property was pillaged and his amiable and accomplished wife, the daughter of Mr. Matthews whom he had married in 1773, was laid in the grave. The tidings of these in afflictions did not reach him until he was exchanged and returned to Philadelphia. With the calm and dignified fortitude of a Christian, a philosopher, and a hero, he met the shafts of afflictive fate. He mourned deeply, but submissively, the premature exit of the companion of his bosom. His physical sufferings and loss of property he freely offered at the altar of liberty, without a murmur or a sigh.

Judge Heyward also participated in the military perils of "the times that tried men's souls." He commanded a company of [[artillery]] at the battle of [[Beaufort]], and was severely wounded. At the attack upon [[Savannah]] he was also actively engaged. At the siege of [[Charleston]] he commanded a [[battalion]], but was taken prisoner by the British along with two other Founders [[Edward Rutledge]] and [[Arthur Middleton]].  They were transferred to [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] and held at St. Mark's.<ref>http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000555</ref>

 

Heyward paid a heavy price for being in favor of the cause of Liberty.  During his time as a captive, his property was pillaged and his amiable and accomplished wife, the daughter of Mr. Matthews whom he had married in 1773, was laid in the grave. The tidings of these in afflictions did not reach him until he was exchanged and returned to Philadelphia. With the calm and dignified fortitude of a Christian, a philosopher, and a hero, he met the shafts of afflictive fate. He mourned deeply, but submissively, the premature exit of the companion of his bosom.

==Return to the Judiciary==

==Return to the Judiciary==