Lexington County · Marker 32-04
Battle of Cloud's Creek
Summerland Ave. (S.C. Hwy. 391) N of Leesville, near Lexington County-Saluda County line
Front inscription
On November 17, 1781, in a house near Cloud's Creek one mile east Captain Sterling Turner's Patriot militia were surrounded and massacred by Tory militia under Major William Cunningham. Among the more than twenty dead were Captain James Butler and his son, James, who were buried with the others at the site, and whose graves have been marked there.