EUTAWVILLE  , a

town of Berkeley county, South Carolina, U.S.A., about 55 M . N.N.W. of Charleston . Pop . (1900) 305; (1910) 405 . It is served by the Atlantic Coast Line railway . The town lies on high ground near the Santee river, in a region abounding in swamps, limestone cliffs and pine forests . At present its chief interest is in lumber, but in colonial days it was a settlement of aristocratic rice planters . The neighbouring Eutaw Springs issue first from the foot of a hill and form a large stream of clear, cool water, but this, only a few yards away, again rushes underground to reappear about e m. farther on . At Eutaw Springs, on the 8th of September 1781, was fought the last battle in the field in the Southern States during the War of American Independence . About 2300 Americans under General Nathanael Greene here attacked a slightly inferior force under Colonel Alexander Stewart; at first the Americans drove the British before them, but later in the day the latter took a position in a brick house and behind palisades, and from this position the Americans were unable to drive them . On the night of the 9th, however, Colonel Stewart retreated toward Charleston, abandoning 1000 stand of arms . The battle has been classed as a tactical victory for the British and a strategical victory for the Americans, terminating a campaign which left General Greene in virtual possession of the Carolinas, the British thereafter confining them-selves to Charleston .

The Americans lost in killed and wounded 408 men (including Colonel

William Washington, wounded and captured); the British, 693 .