The American Revolution in South Carolina - The Loyalists and Their Militias




The American Revolution in South Carolina

New York Volunteers

Engagements:

1779 - Purrysburg

1780 - Siege of Charleston

1780 - Williamson's Plantation

1780 - Rocky Mount

1781 - Dutchman's Creek

1781 - Log Town

1781 - Hobkirk's Hill

1781 - Relief of Ninety-Six

1781 - Eutaw Springs

1781 - Garden's Plantation

1782 - Videau's Bridge

1782 - Goose Creek

1782 - Dorchester

1782 - Wambaw Bridge

1782 - Tydiman's Plantation

Formed by troops recruited by Lts. Duncan Campbell and Alexander Grant in New York, this corps was embodied in 1775 as a Provincial Regiment. They were posted in the Northern Department and saw action on 27th August 1776, on Long Island, at White Plains in October following, and in the storm of Fort Montgomery on the 6th October 1777.

The New York Volunteers sailed South with Lt. Colonel Alexander Campbell and participated in the successful capture of Savannah in December 1778, and in the defense of Savannah in October 1779. The regiment fought at the siege of Charleston in May 1780, and successfully defended the British outpost at Rocky Mount under the command of Lt. Colonel George Turnbull when attacked by General Thomas Sumter on August 1, 1780. They fought in the Battle of Camden and remained at Camden after Lord Cornwallis took the main British army to Charlotte and into Virginia after the Battle of Camden in August 1780.

After the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill on April 25, 1781, the regiment fought at Eutaw Springs in September of 1781.