Historians, community commemorate Battle of Eutaw Springs 244 years later

EUTAWVILLE, S.C. (WIS) - On the 244th anniversary of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, community members and historians are working to preserve the site of what’s considered the last major Revolutionary War battle in the South.

The battle, which took place on Sept. 8, 1781, in what is now Eutawville, pitted General Nathanael Greene’s forces against the British army. It was a decisive engagement that some historians credit with convincing British commander General Lord Charles Cornwallis that he could no longer win the war in the South.

“Some historians say this battle was the battle that convinced Lord General Cornwallis... that he wasn’t going to win the war in the south, and thus he wasn’t going to win the war,” said Douglas Doster of the South Carolina Society Sons of the American Revoluti