On May 29, 1780, at this place, a battle was fought between Col. Abraham Buford, commanding a regiment of 350 Virginians, and Col. Tarleton of the British Army with 350 cavalry and a like number of infantry. Nearly the entire command of Col. Buford was either killed or wounded, and 84 soldiers are buried in this grave. They had left their homes to relieve Charleston, but after hearing at Camden of that city's surrender, they were returning when their lives ended here in the service of their country. The cruelty and barbarous massacre committed by Tarleton and his command after the surrender of Col. Buford and his regiment gave rise to the American war cry, "Remember Tarleton's Quarter," and a British historian confessed that at this battle "The virtue of humanity was totally forgot."