Hello Cousins: Below is a URL that has an image of General Thomas Sumpter/Sumter...it's not the best in the world, but thought someone might be interested. http://www.lpitr.state.sc.us/sumter.htm Also, here is some information forwarded to me by a friend....perhaps it will help someone. Before you ask, NO..I don't have any more of this information at this time, and don't have this book...but hope this helps someone... Elaine eng4@stc.net Gamecock -The life and Campaigns of Gen Thomas Sumpter by Robert D. Bass in the back of the book is a section on sources -some follows. Sumter is from "sumpter," a word which comes from Old French sommetier, which is derived from Latin sagma, a packsaddle. Sumpter designates an animal used to transport baggage, as a sumpter horse, and also a driver of such animals. In England in the thirteenth century sumpter changed from an occupation to a proper name. Family tradition says that the Sumpters came from Wales. Thomas Sumter spelled his name Sumpter or Sumter. On January 31, 1792, he signed his congressional pay voucher as Thomas Sumpter, but on March 2, 1792, and thereafter he signed it Thomas Sumter. Sources and Notes 1) Sergeant from Preddy's The primary sources of Gamecock are the letters of Thomas Sumter, Nathanael Greene, John Rutledge, Francis Marion, Henry Lee, William Henderson, Daniel Morgan, Banastre Tarleton, Lord Cornwallis and many other Am and British participants in the Rev War. The majority of these is still unpublished. The MEMOIRS of Lee and the CAMPAIGNS of Tarleton, as well as the sketches, notes, memoirs, and histories of other participants are additional primary sources. Secondary sources are extensive, the most important being the Sumter papers in the Draper collection left by Lyman C. Draper, Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and author of KING's MOUTAIN and IT'S HEROES. Draper planned a similar book about Sumter and his men and during forty years of research collected more than ten thousand pages of notes. These are now arranged in twenty-four manuscript volunes, marked Series VV, and preserved in the archives of the Society in Madison. The sources for background are Christopher Ward, THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, edited by John Richard Alden, 2 vols., New York, 1952; and Sir Henry Clinton, THE AMERICAN REBELLION< edited by William B. Wilcox, New Haven, 1954. Biographical information is from the DICTIONARY OF AM BIOGRAPHY, New York, 1937; THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, London, 1921; Lorenzo Sabine, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LOYALISTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION..., 2 vols. New York, 1864; Francis B. Heitman, HISTORICAL REGISTER AND DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY...,2 vols., Washington, 1903; YEAR BOOK: City of REMINISCENCES CHIEFLY OF THE AM REV IN THE SOUTH...,Charleston, 1851; and the unpublished muster rolls of the British regiments. Maps used in tracing the campaigns of the Gamecock are Henry Mouzon, AN ACCURATE MAP OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA...,London, 1775; Robert Mills, ATLAS OF THE STATE OF SC..., Baltimore 1825; and SOUTH CAROlina STATE highWAY PRIMARY SYSTEM and maps of the counties of SC prepared and published by the SC Highway Department. The names of many towns, streams and places have been changed since the Revolution. The original name has been used in GAME-COCK: for instance, Cross Creek instead of Fayetteville and Drowning Creek instead of Lumber River. Modern spelling has been used, however; Charleston instead of Charles Town and Winnsboro instead of Winnsborough. In the main these spelling have come from the maps prepared by the SC Highway Department. Accounts of the Sumter family and Sumter's youth are taken from Drapers manuscripts, especially volume 1 VV. See also Anne King Gregorie, THOMAS SUMTER, Columbia, 1931. The story of Timberlake and Sumter among the Cherokees and in London is from Samuel Coles Williams, editor. Lieut. Henry Timberlake's Memoirs, Marietta, 1948. For the return of the Cherokees from London, see Draper, 2VV169. Sumter's appearance in Charleston is from JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL OF SC. Sumter's second visit to the Cherokees and capture of Des Jonnes is derived from Draper. 11VV330, 11VV335, and 11VV370, and from the SC GAZETTE, March 19, March 26, April 30, and May 7, 1763. The account of Sumter's jail break is from Draper, 2VV80. Sumter's letter to Martin is in Draper, 1VV24. Henry Timberlake, from Hanover Co. VA served in the militia under Col Byrd. After escorting the Cherokee chiefs to England, Lieutenant Timberlake wrote his MEMOIRS. He died in London in 1765. Sumter was probably sergeant in Timberlake's company.