Eutaw Springs
a small tributary of the Santee river in Clarendon co., S. C. It is noted for the battle fought on its banks in 1781, between about 2,000 Americans under General Greene, and about 2,300 British under Colonel Stuart. The latter were defeated and driven from their camp but returned and Greene was compelled to retire. In the night, however, the British retreated toward Charleston, leaving 138 killed and wounded and about 500 prisoners.
The Americans lost about 550 in killed, wounded and missing.
EUTERPE (-ter'pē), one of the Muses, considered as presiding over lyric poetry, the invention of the flute being ascribed to her. She is usually represented as a virgin crowned with flowers, having a flute in her hand. In botany, a genus of palms, natives of South America, sometimes nearly 100 feet in height.