Matthew Varnado / Varnadore / Varnedoe

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Military: Patriot - Rev War Sep 1778 - 1781

Of the Varnadoe brothers, only Mathew returned home wounded.

In September 1778, a year and a half prior to the fall of Charles Town, Mathew Varnedore, one of the younger sons, along with four other men from Orangeburg, enlisted in the Continental Army. He and the others marched to Beaufort Island near Charles Town to join the main body of the southern Continental Army in a brigade commanded by General Sumpter. This command left Charles Town for Cambridge, NC. and in that way avoided being captured with the bulk of the army in Charles Town in 1780. Mathew Varnedore spent the next year fighting British troops as far north as Rocky Mount in north-central North Carolina. He returned to spend the winter in South Carolina in the "High Hills of Santee" under General Green. The next fall, in September, 1781, he was wounded in his left knee by a musket ball at the Battle of Eutaw Springs. After being wounded, he was discharged and returned to his father's farm on the Rocky Swamp Creek.

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