EUTAW SPRINGS, S.C. (AP) — Standing beneath the spreading branches of a massive live oak, historian Garrison Marcoux tries to imagine what this scarred, struggling tree saw 245 years ago.

A scarred but majestic live oak at a Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina is getting a new lease on life.

A scarred but majestic live oak at a Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina is getting a new lease on life