Other names: Howard Gap

What: Skirmish, ?? Jun 1776, *Capt. Thomas Howard vs. Cherokee

Where: 35.24505, -82.27314

Maps: [map notes]

• 35.24505,-82.27314, Round Mountain.
• ACME Mapper.
• National Map
• Google. Select "Hybrid" and click on "-" 3 times.
• GNIS record for Howard Gap, Polk Co. NC. Note mapping options.

Sources:

• Cherokee Prayer Initiative
  • Historical Notes on the Cherokee People, by Linda Fulmer from Archive.org (no longer a "live" website). Captain Howard, who lived near the North Carolina border, gathered a small company of men in a blockhouse there. Led by Schuyuka, a friendly Cherokee, through an unfamiliar gap, they marched five miles unto North Carolina where warriors were encamped in a mountain gap. They surprised their enemy, and many Cherokees died in the"Battle of Round Mountain"and were buried there. The site is near present Tryon. Ref. given as: [HG] James M. Richardson, History of Greenville County South Carolina, Narrative and Biographical, 1930, 1980.
  • Cherokee Prayer Initiative, Site Guide: 699. Battle of Round Mountain, Tryon, NC Revolutionary War battle won by American Howard because they had an informant Cherokee. I-26 goes though Howard's Gap today.
  • Map: Columbia to Oconee. Note site 699 at top of map.
  • Battle of Round Mountain (Tryon) NC monument

• NBBAS:One, p.113.

• Sherman's Calendar.... Too early to be included.

• RevWar75   listing for Round Mountain (Howard's Gap) 6/76. Shown as in SC, believed to be error.

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  Confidence level: 2