Skirmish at Bloody Savannah (1 lugl 1781 anni – 31 lugl 1781 anni)

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Lyman C. Draper wrote of a skirmish conducted by a Major John Singleton of Sumter’s Patriots. Singleton... "with a small squad of Sumter’s men…attacked a party of marauding Tories, eleven in number, at Bloody Savannah, ten miles distant" from the present-day town of Sumter. Singleton "killed ten of the Loyalist gentlemen, one of them making his escape by hiding behind a pile of rails."

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