Stewart, in order to make up for…
September 1781 CE
At around 8 a.m. on September 8, Captain John Coffin and a detachment of his South Carolina Loyalist cavalry are reconnoitering ahead of Stewart’s main force when he encounters a mounted American scouting party under Major John Armstrong.
Coffin pursues Armstrong, who leads him into an ambush.
Attacked by Henry Lee’s 2nd Partisan Corps, Coffin escapes but leaves four or five of his men killed and forty more captured.
The Americans now come across Stewart’s foragers and capture about four hundred of them.
Greene's force, with around twenty-two hundred men, now approached Stewart's camp while Stewart, warned by Coffin, deploys his force.
When the Americans realize they are approaching the British force, they form three lines, with the militia in front with two three-pounders, followed by the Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina Continentals with 2 6-pounders, with the Delaware Regiment and Washington in reserve.
The American start the attack at 9 AM with artillery and an advance by the militia.
Hand-to-hand combat ensues when the militia close with the British Line.
The British casualty return states the loss as eighty-five killed, three hundred and fifty-one wounded and two hundred and fifty-seven missing.
However, Greene reports that he has captured five hundred prisoners, including seventy wounded.
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