Skirmish at Bloody Savannah (jul 1, 1781 – jul 31, 1781)
Description:
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."Added to timeline:
Date:
jul 1, 1781
jul 31, 1781
~ 1 months