Battle of Blackstock's Farm

Battle of Blackstock's Farm (also called Blackstock's Plantation, Blackstock's Hill, and Blackstocks)
Part of the American Revolutionary War

Blackstock Battle Memorial
DateNovember 20, 1780
Location
Union County, near Cross Anchor, South Carolina
Result Patriot victory
Belligerents

 Great Britain

 United States Patriot militia
Commanders and leaders
Kingdom of Great Britain Banastre Tarleton United States Thomas Sumter +
Strength
270 regulars and militia 1,000 militia
Casualties and losses
51–167 killed and wounded[1][2] 3 killed
4 wounded
50 captured[3]
Battle of Blackstock's Historic Site
LocationWest of Union off South Carolina Highway 49, near Union, South Carolina
Area540 acres (220 ha)
Built1780 (1780)
NRHP reference No.74001885[4]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1974

The Battle of Blackstock's Farm, a military engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in what today is Union County, South Carolina, a few miles from Cross Anchor, on November 20, 1780.

The battle marked the first time during the war that an American militia had defeated British regulars.[5]

  1. ^ Tarleton, The Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, Chapter 3 Archived January 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Tarleton gave the following totals: 63d Regiment, 3 officers and 30 enlisted men killed or wounded; the British Legion, 2 officers and 15 enlisted men; plus one staff officer killed—a total of 51 casualties.
  2. ^ Lumpkin, 114; Buchanan, 257.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference O was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  5. ^ Crawford, 2024 p. 162: “For the first time, American militia had defeated British regulars…”