Britain’s Major Patrick Ferguson and his Loyalist militia were ordered by Cornwallis to sweep west, resulting in a clash with South Carolina militia and frontiersmen from Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, known as the “Overmountain Men”. Symbolic of the southern campaign where militias were used on both sides, the only British national at the battle was Major Ferguson, who would be killed in action. This major Partisan victory was a turning point in the war in the South. Forced to abandon his North Carolina campaign, Cornwallis returned to SC.
