Charleston Road, South of the Santee – August 16, 1781

Charlestown Road, South of the Santee – August 16, 1781

After South Carolina Patriot Colonel Isaac Hayne was captured and hanged, the Americans sought ways to avenge his hanging. Capt. John Ervin was ordered by Brigadier General Francis Marion to interrupt the British lines of communication along the Santee River. Ervin captured an enemy convoy south of the Santee River. British Capt. Campbell and two other British officers and a private were also captured in the action. Instead of immediately paroling these prisoners, Major General Nathaniel Greene ordered them confined for possible retaliation of Hayne’s hanging. The prisoners’ fate is unknown, but they were probably exchanged or paroled.