jun 3, 1781 - Skirmish at Snipe's Horseshoe Plantation

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Early in June, Capt. John Saunders of the Queen's Rangers led a party of horse, including some units of Col. Robert Ballingall's Colleton County Loyalist Militia, in pursuit of a Patriot force under Major William Clay Snipes of Brigadier General Thomas Sumter's state troops. Major Snipes was encamped on his own plantation, at the Horse Shoe.
Capt. John Saunders' men swam their horses across the Edisto River at Parker's Ferry, and surprised Major Snipes and his men at daybreak on June 3, 1781. The Patriots were routed with only Major Snipes and three of his men escaping. Eighteen Americans were put to the sword, and some others may have been killed when Snipes's mill house was set on fire.

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