"Battle of the Waxhaws" aka "Davie’s Attack” was fought
on what is now Union County, NC soil on September 20th, 1780
The Seat of War of the Revolution of the Southern States:
Shewing the Principal movements of the Hostile Armies
Engraved for Johnsons Sketches of the Life & Correspondence of Major General Greene
Published: 1822
Dates depicted: 1775-1783)
Creator: Henry Schenck Tanner (1786-1858)
(red line shows Cornwallis’ route)
Portion of map found at North Carolina Maps (UNC-Chapel Hill)
https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/record/550c5d4e-f3f7-482c-85c8-da23bcf00cd6
Dickerson Genealogy & Local History Room
Union County Public Library [UCL]
316 E Windsor St., Monroe, NC
704-283-8184 x5236
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Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas (3 volumes)
Specifically used: Volume Two – 1780 (p 309-311)
By Patrick O’Kelley R 973.335 O’KELLE
Benson J. Lossing’s Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution in the Carolinas &Georgia
A 2004 reprint of selections from Lossing’s 1850 book including his sketches of the ‘scenery and relics’ of the Revolution as seen in 1850. (p 61)
Edited by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. R 973.3 LOSSING
The Wisackyola Historical Festival Review 1966 (p 29)
Note: Also includes illustration of monument; A map ‘The Garden of the Waxhaws…”
is always included in their publications and shows the location of the “Battle of the Waxhaws” R 975.6 WISAC(Locked Files)
Backgrounds and Beginnings of The Walkup Family and the Tracing of One Ancestral Line Descending From Samuel Walkup And Nancy Alexander Walkup (p 5 & 6)
Compiled & Arranged by Harry Y. Gamble R 929.2 BACK
The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (Volume IV: S-Z used), Edited by Barnes & Ryerson
(p 1310 – Wahab’s Plantation) [ebook only at UCL]
This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782
By John S. Pancake (1985) [no longer available at UCL]
Note: “Wahab’s Plantation” buried in Kings Mountain Chapter on p. 116
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution by Dan Morrill [no longer available at UCL]
References to the DAR monument (with last one a reference to highway marker):
Sweet Union (p 231-232) Edited by Suzanne Pickens R 975.6 SWE
Touring North Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites (1998)
By Daniel W. Barefoot R 917.56 BARE
(note: p. 152, “Until vandals destroyed it in recent years…”
The Wisackyola Historical Festival Review 1967 R 975.6 WISA (Locked Files)
Guide to North Carolina Highway Historical Markers R 917.56 HILL
10th Edition, Edited by Michael Hill, 2007
Office of Archives & History, Dept. of Cultural Resources
(Highway Marker for “Davie’s Attack” placed 1991)
-Newspaper Articles from The Enquirer-Journal, Monroe-Enquirer found in the vertical files of the Dickerson Genealogy & Local History Room (UCVF: Revolutionary War)
-Battle of the Waxhaws- some other names: Wahab’s Plantation, Battle at Wahab’s Mill, Battle at Walkup’s Mill, Davie’s Attack
R=Reference book (non-checkout) Originally created by Patricia M. Poland, 9/15/2008 (revised 2026)