When Charlestown fell into the hands of the British, under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton and Vice-Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot, Captain John Mumford of the Colleton County Regiment of Militia, in attempting to make his way to the Patriot Army, was attacked at Morris’s Ford, Salkehatchie, by old Ben John and his gang of Loyalists.

In this encounter the poor fellow lost his life, and a truer Patriot and braver soldier never fell. He now sleeps at the foot of a large pine, on the left hand side of the main road to Barnwell Court House, a few rods south of the bridge, just at turn of the road from which you can see the bridge.