ORANGEBURG CO., SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR - WINNINGHAM, Joseph

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Pension Application Of Joseph Winningham, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2616, Application # S9531
Orangeburg District, SC, 17th of October, 1832, Joseph Winningham, aged 70 
years:
	“In the spring of 1781 he enlisted in the service of his country for 
ten months under Captain William Reid in the regiment commanded by Colonel 
Charles S. Middleton in a brigade commanded by General Thomas Sumter. The first 
affair in which he was engaged with the British happened with a party on their 
way to relieve their garrison at Ninety Six.”

“Sometime afterwards he was engaged in a chase of the British from Biggin’s 
Church to a place called Quinby [per Heitman, Quinby’s Bridge, July 17th, 1781] 
where a warm combat for ten or fifteen minutes ensued.”

“The next serious business in which he acted was at the Battle of Eutaw 
Springs. He was in an engagement with a party of the British from near 
William’s Branch down to the old field by the Eutaw Springs, in which the 
artillery, Colonel Washington, Colonel Lee'’ infantry, and General Sumter’s 
infantry, to which he belonged, were engaged with the British eight or ten 
minutes before General Greene with his Pennsylvanians, Marylanders, Virginians 
and North Carolinians joined them. This was on the 8th of September, 1781, when 
he lacked 4 months of being nineteen years of age.”

“The company to which he was attached was placed on the left wing of the army, 
the artillery in the road. Then Washington and Lee’s infantry, and next General 
Greene’s army, and General Marion’s men occupied the right. Captain Reid 
resigned and Captain Ross succeeded him. In the commencement of the battle, 
Captain Ross commanded the company to which he was attached. After fighting 
awhile, the division extended its line to the left and Pickens men were marched 
up between it and the artillery. Colonels Water, Hampton, Polk and others were 
among the Colonels commanding regiments in General Sumter’s brigade.”

	“And…William Paulling further says that he served with the said Joseph 
Winningham during the time herein stated, and can testify to his service as 
heretofore set forth.”