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Hanging
Rock, ACTION AT. After his unsuccessful
attack on Rocky
Mount, Colonel Sumter
crossed the Catawba, and fell upon a British post at Hanging Rock,
12 miles east of the river, August 6, 1780, commanded by Major
Carden. A large number of British and Tories were there. Among the
former were the infantry of
Tarleton's Legion.
Sumter soon dispersed them, when his men scattered through the camp,
seeking plunder and drinking the liquors found there. Intoxication
followed. The British rallied, and attacked the disordered patriots,
and a severe skirmish ensued. The British were reinforced, and
Sumter was compelled to retreat; but the British had been so
severely handled that they did not attempt to pursue. With a few
prisoners and some booty, Sumter retreated towards the Waxhaw,
bearing away many of his wounded men. The battle lasted about four
hours. Sumter lost twelve killed and forty-one wounded. At the same
time Marion was smiting
the British and Tories with sudden and fierce blows among the swamps
of the lower country, on the borders of the Pedee; Pickens was
annoying Cruger near the Saluda, and Clarke was calling for the
patriots along the Savannah and other
Georgia streams to
drive Brown from Augusta. Hanging Rock is a huge conglomerate bolder
near the Lancaster and Camden highway, a few miles east of the
Catawba River, in South Carolina. It is a shelving rock, 20 or 30
feet in diameter, lying on the verge of a high bank of a small
stream, nearly 100 feet above it. Under its concavity fifty men
might find shelter from rain. |