Captain McCall And Alexander Cameron

An article about Captain McCall And Alexander Cameron on the website, All Things Liberty (excerpted below):

"Captain McCall was publicly instructed to lead a 33 man expedition into the Lower Villages of the Cherokee for the purpose of negotiating the return of property taken in recent raids against the colonists.  His true mission remained unknown in a sealed packet of orders from Williamson."

Charleston, South Carolina

"Correlative with the investment and capture of Charlestown [Charleston] was the plan to combine the Indians and royalists of the up country against the patriots and supporters of the new State government. In the invasion of South Carolina by the British, the fierce Cherokees thought they saw a favorable opportunity to overwhelm the frontiers and sweep away the settlers in a hurricane of slaughter. The British plan and the Indian ambition were, therefore, in full accord." [Source]

South Carolina

"To counteract these influences, the Council of Safety had sent Capt. William Freeman to meet some of the head men of the Cherokees on the frontier...the Indians had been seduced from their friendly relations...[and]...it was decided to capture and remove ...[Indian Agent Alexander Cameron] from the scene of his mischief making." [Ibid]

"That hazard was entrusted to Capt. James McCall of the Ninety-sixth district, with Capt. James Baskin and Ensign Patrick Calhoun as his associates. The party marched from the Cherokee Ford on the Savannah River, and after a six days trip encamped near a large town in the nation where a conference was entered into with the chiefs. While thus engaged, the little force was surprised by a party of Cherokee warriors, and in the course of the affray, Calhoun and three others were killed and Captain McCall was taken prisoner." [Ibid]