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Clem's Branch
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35.029761 -80.86438 Sumter's Camp, Clem's Branch, June - July 1780
35.025832 -80.87057 Clem's Branch hist. mkr.
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- William L. Anderson, "Historical Marker Commemorating
Colonel Thomas Sumter’s Clems Branch Camp
June–July 1780", 16 April 2007
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The marker is location at the Clems Branch bridge on Harrisburg Road, SR29-64, in upper Lancaster County. The historical campsite is one half-mile upstream on the South Carolina and North Carolina state line adjoining both Lancaster and Mecklenburg Counties. ...
- William L. Anderson, email 11 Dec 2007:
Sumter had 300 to 500 men and horses at Clems Branch in late June and early July 1780. So they were spread over several acres, up and down the branch. But the central landmark was the road crossing Clems Branch and the state line at the same point. [Sumter's Camp, Clem's Branch, above]
The old road shown on this TZ map is not the original wagon road. Rather the original was the extension of Harrisburg Road travelling due north from SC to NC. Segments of that old road are still evident. About a half mile south is a stone milepost that reads "XV to C"”, meaning 15 miles to Charlotte.
Even before the Revolutionary War, there was a one to two acre wagon campground on high ground about 200 yards to the southwest on the South Carolina side. It is ... :
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- "An Application for a
South Carolina Historical Marker
Commemorating
Colonel Thomas Sumter’s Clems Branch Camp
June–July 1780". Includes "hand-drawn maps and eyewitness accounts described by veterans in their pension applications."
- Lyman Copeland Draper, King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain ..., 1881, P.G. Thomson, p.477
William Chronicle was born on the South Fork of
Catawba, now Gaston County, North Carolina, about 1755.
In December, 1775, he marched at the head of a company
on the Snow campaign, and in 1779, to Georgia ; and afterwards
to the relief of Charleston. He was with General
Rutherford's rear at Ramsour's, then joining Sumter at
Clem's Branch awhile, he was engaged in chasing Tories
out of the country.
- Edward McCrady, The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780, 1901, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., p.687
Colonel Williams ... joined
Sumter's camp at Clem's Branch in July ...
The remainder of this quote is an example of the vilification of Col. Williams directly attributed to Draper's admiration for William Hill's memoir written for the purpose of vilifying James Williams. This is poor work on the part of two otherwise credible historians (Draper, McCrady).
- American-Irish Historical Society, The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, 1922, The Society, p.96
It is related that on the night of August 18, 1780, General
Sumter's camp at Fishing Creek, N. C., was attacked by Tarle-
ton, when the patriot forces were completely surprised, many of
the men killed and wounded and about 300 taken prisoner.
Moore says: "Sumter and Lacey made their escape with a few
men into Mecklenburg County, N. C. Here Lacey was ordered
by General Sumter to take what men he had who had escaped
with them to go into York and Chester, collect his straggling
soldiers, beat up for more men among the Irish and reorganize
his regiment with mounted infantry, all of which he accomplished
in a short time, and rejoined Sumter at Clem's Branch."
- Pension Application of Samuel Houston W7810,
Transcribed by Will Graves
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From the battleground Ramsour's Mill, he was again marched across the Catawba River into the Catawba Indian Land and encamped for some time at a place called Clem's Branch in Lancaster District South Carolina. ...
- Sherman's Calendar.... p.135, 137. To avoid long downloads, use option to "Save and view this PDF in Reader".
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