Rain prevents a continuation of battle the…
September 1781 CE
Instead, Stewart buries his dead, destroys supplies, including one thousand muskets, and retreats towards Moncks Corner, leaving fifty-four of his wounded behind with a surgeon to attend them.
These men are included in Stewart’s casualty report under the category “wounded” but the remaining sixteen wounded captured by Greene would have been returned as “missing”.
The disparity between Stewart’s report of two hundred and fifty-seven missing and Greene’s figure of five hundred prisoners may be due to Stewart regarding the capture of his foraging party as a separate engagement and not including their losses in his casualty return for the battle.
Including the loss of the foraging party, and counting the fifty-four wounded men whom Stewart decided to leave behind on September 9 in the "wounded prisoners" category instead of as "wounded", this gives total British casualties of eighty-five killed, two hundred and ninety-seven wounded, seventy wounded prisoners and four hundred and thirty other prisoners.
There are three successive versions of the American casualty return.
The first, compiled soon after the battle, gives two hundred and fifty-one killed, three hundred and sixty-seven wounded and seventy-four missing.
The second, compiled somewhat later and published by the Continental Congress, will reduce the losses to one hundred and thirty-eight killed, three hundred and seventy-five wounded and forty-one missing.
The third and final revision, compiled on September 25, 1781, will arrive at figures of one hundred and nineteen killed, three hundred and eighty-two wounded and seventy-eight missing.
The British take sixty prisoners, including the wounded Colonel William Washington, and two artillery pieces.
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