Alexander Fleming and his brothers Elijah,Robert,and William joined the South Carolina militia as horsemen in Capt Hanna's company of Col. William Bratton's regiment of Gen. Thomas Sumter's partisan army. Alexander Fleming lost his horse and was captured and confined by the British in the old jail in Camden. When smallpox broke out in the prison Alexander Fleming fell prey to it and died about April 1781. He could not have died there later than May 10,1781,when Lord Rawdon evacuated Camden after burning the jail,the mills and some private houses and destroying all the stores he could not take with him. from information by the late Elmer O. Parker