EUTAW SPRINGS (BATTLE or). The last battle fought in the field in the Southern States during the American Revolu tionary War. This action took place on Sept. 8, 1781, in the vicinity of Eutawville, a small village (pop. 193o, 327) in Orange burg county, S.C., about 55m. N.N.W. of Charleston. The village lies on high ground near the Santee river, in a region abounding in swamps, limestone cliffs and pine forests. The neighbouring Eutaw springs issue first from the foot of a hill and form a large stream of clear, cool water, but this, only a few yards away, again rushes underground to reappear about *m, farther on. Near these springs about 2,30o Americans, under Gen. Nathaniel Greene, attacked a slightly inferior force under Col. Alexander Stewart ; at first the Americans drove the British before them, but later in the day the latter took a position in a brick house and behind palisades, and from this position the Americans were unable to drive them. On the night of the 9th, however, Col. Stewart re treated toward Charleston, abandoning I,000 stand of arms. The battle has been classed as a tactical victory for the British and a strategical victory for the Americans, terminating a campaign which left Gen. Greene in virtual possession of the Carolinas, the British thereafter confining themselves to Charleston. The Amer icans lost in killed and wounded 408 men (including Col. William Washington, wounded and captured) ; the British, 693.