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Near Gaffney in Cherokee County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line

 
 
Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Stanley and Terrie Howard, October 25, 2008
1. Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line Marker
Inscription.
The sharpshooters at the skirmish line waited until Tarleton's army got within shooting distance. Their orders were to slow Tarleton's advance with well-aimed rifle fire and then fall back to the militia second line. As the British came within range the militia delivered a deadly fire, dropping two-thirds of the officers, then funneled back though the Continental line.
 
Erected by Cowpens National Battlefield - National Park Service - U.S. Department of the Interior.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.
 
Location. 35° 8.02′ N, 81° 48.731′ W. Marker is near Gaffney, South Carolina, in Cherokee County. Marker can be reached from Chesnee Highway (Route 11). Located at Cowpens National Battlefield Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gaffney SC 29341, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Let 'em Get Within Killin' Distance (within shouting distance of this marker); Skirmishers Retreat, British Advance (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Form the Line of Battle (about 400 feet away); Landscape Restoration Project (about 400 feet away); A Race for the Grasshopper (about 400 feet
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away); Double Envelopment (about 500 feet away); Colonel Howard's Misunderstood Order (about 500 feet away); The Continental Army at Cowpens (about 600 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gaffney.
 
Also see . . .  Battle of Cowpens. National Park Service website entry (Submitted on October 27, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.) 
 
Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Stanley and Terrie Howard, October 25, 2008
2. Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line
Marker on Cowpens National Battlefield image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, August 5, 2010
3. Marker on Cowpens National Battlefield
Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, August 5, 2010
4. Sharpshooters at the Skirmish Line Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 8, 2022. It was originally submitted on October 27, 2008, by Stanley and Terrie Howard of Greer, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 1,073 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on October 27, 2008, by Stanley and Terrie Howard of Greer, South Carolina.   3, 4. submitted on August 5, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.

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