Battle of Blackstock's Farm

	Battle of Blackstock's Historic Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	West of Union off South Carolina Highway 49, near Union, South Carolina
Area	540 acres (220 ha)
Built	1780
NRHP reference No.	74001885
Added to NRHP	December 16, 1974

Battle of Blackstock's Farm (also called Blackstock's Plantation, Blackstock's Hill, and Blackstocks)
	Part of the American Revolutionary War
	; Blackstock Battle Memorial
Date	November 20, 1780
Location	Union County, near Cross Anchor, South Carolina
Result	Patriot victory
Belligerents
Great Britain; Loyalists;	Patriot militia
Commanders and leaders
Banastre Tarleton	Thomas Sumter +
Strength
270 regulars and militia	1,000 militia
Casualties and losses
51–167 killed and wounded	3 killed; 4 wounded; 50 captured

The Battle of Blackstock's Farm, a military engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in what today is Union County, South Carolina, a few miles from Cross Anchor, on November 20, 1780.

The battle marked the first time during the war that an American militia had defeated British regulars.^[5]

^ Tarleton, The Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, Chapter 3 Archived January 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Tarleton gave the following totals: 63d Regiment, 3 officers and 30 enlisted men killed or wounded; the British Legion, 2 officers and 15 enlisted men; plus one staff officer killed—a total of 51 casualties.
^ Lumpkin, 114; Buchanan, 257.
^ Cite error: The named reference O was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Crawford, 2024 p. 162: “For the first time, American militia had defeated British regulars…”