Skirmish, Maj. John Singleton vs. Loyalists

Draper wrote of a skirmish conducted by a Maj. 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 present-day Sumter. Singleton "killed ten of the Loyalist gentlemen, one of them making his escape by hiding behind a pile of rails."