Series: 5 VV (Volume 5)
Scope and Content Note: Draper's notes and correspondence on battles in 1780, particularly Huck's Defeat, Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Fish Dam Ford, Blackstocks, and Cedar Spring. A few notes and clippings pertain to Ramsour's Mill (1776) and Cowan's Ford (1781). The papers contain information on William Blackstock and his family; James, Robert, and Samuel Craig; Robert McKelvey; Golding and James Tinsley; and also references to many of the persons mentioned in 4 VV. Two letters (1812) by Richard Winn to Hugh McCall concern several of the 1780 engagements and are accompanied by Winn's plat of the area around Fish Dam Ford. Reminiscences of Huck's Defeat by John Adair are embodied in a letter (1839) written by his son John A. Adair. Recollections of the Revolution by Susannah Barnett Smart (Mrs. George W. Smart) are found in a newspaper article by Daniel G. Stinson. Among Draper's many other clippings and transcripts from published sources are documents concerning the Revolutionary monetary claims submitted to Congress, 1845-1850, by Francis Sumter on behalf of Thomas Sumter's heirs and an assortment of letters and reports by Sumter and by Charles Cornwallis, William R. Davie, Nathanael Greene, James Jackson, and Banastre Tarleton.