This past weekend, I had an opportunity to visit the Hayes Station battle site in Laurens County SC. This is the site where Col. Hayes (one of the militia colonels at Cowpens) commanded a fort. After Yorktown, loyalist Col. "Bloody Bill" Cunningham attacked the fort, forced those inside to surrender, then murdered them after they surrendered, including two sons of Col. James Williams (killed at Kings Mountain). The only place I have seen a description of its location is in Barefoot's useful "Touring SC Rev War Sites", but in this case he is bad wrong. He shows it as being at the intersection of SC 56 and SC 560. It can only be reached from a road identified as SC 30-46 running southeast from the community of Milton, turning on a road identified as Williams Road (less than 2 miles s.e. from Milton), driving until you reach a gate (apparently installed by a hunting club). You walk past the gate about 75 yards and there is a granite marker (placed by the DAR in 1910) enclosed in an iron picket fence (with some of the most lethally-pointed pickets that I recall seeing!). Road maps, including that below, show Williams Road as a road running from SC 30-46 all the way thru to SC 56, but this is no longer true. Where you have to park is just beyond a private residence. The owner, a black man, came out to see what we were up to, and was cordial. His dog, though big and well-behaved, was less cordial but just checked us out and went back into his yard. You can make yourself a map to this site (if it is of interest to you) by going to http://mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp and in the bottom portion, enter 34.34980 -81.87449 Click on the 3rd "zoom in" marker from the top Click on "Big map" John Robertson