Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,578, for Mathew Mc Cammon, South Carolina
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Wise all under the command of Gen T. Sumpter in which term he served about half the time drafted for and was again remanded home.
On the fifteenth day of April Eighty Two the applicant enlisted into the United States service in the South Carolina Calvary under the command of Capt. John Mills Lieut John Miller and Ensign Alexander Brown whose company was first mustered under the command of Colo. Henry Hampton The Term of said enlistment was for Ten Months Five months of the said term was served under the command of the said Henry Hampton the command after the said service was transferred to Colo. Wade Hampton under whom the applicant served the other five months of the term of his enlistment under Colo. W. Hampton the applicant was in the following engagements. First of which was the taking of Fort Congaree secondly the taking of Fort Tompson alias Blocades from thence he was marched to Orangeburg Fort a distance of twenty-five miles which Fort was taken after a short engagement.  He was next in an engagement or skirmish with the famous Tory Simon ^[illegible] in the said skirmish there was Thirteen killed on the side of the U. States.  He was further at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in which engagement the applicant received a slight flesh wound in the act of charging.  All of the above engagements was in the state of South Carolina under the command of the above named officers after which he was marched under
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was in an engagement with the British within eight or ten miles of Savannah, Georgia, and one with the Indians within twenty or twenty-five miles of Ebenezer.

After the Revolution he lived for a while in Kentucky, exact time not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Sullivan County, Indiana.

The above noted is the only soldier named Mathew McCammon found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Respectfully,
Earl D. Church
Commissioner.
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went to Kentucky , than  later to Indiana. He died in Sullivan County Indiana  August 6, 1826 . If he drew a pension , please inform me also the fee for a copy of the certified papers. I should like to ask the same information about Matthew ( McCammon ) ( underscored )  . He too was a Revolutionary soldier, a private from Virginia , who later came
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After the Revolution he lived for a while in Kentucky, exact
time not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13,
1832, at which time he was a resident of Sullivan County, Indiana.
The above noted is the only soldier named Matthew McCammon
found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF
Commissioner