A schematic — not a precise cartographic — map of where the Little River Regiment’s pension file and its companion depositions actually place Robert Long, tour by tour. Positions are relative, not surveyed; only the named landmarks are meant to be read literally.
Relative positions only, not a surveyed projection. Solid lines mark ground covered between places Robert Long (or a fellow deponent) names directly in a sworn declaration; dashed lines mark a stated objective or direction without a named waypoint, or a specific place-name that rests on the Wickware 1936 family account rather than on S7157 itself.
How to read the lines.
named in a sworn declaration
objective/direction only, or family-tradition place-name
a fight he narrowly missed
Tour 1 Mar–Aug 1778
Cherokee line & Saluda pursuit, then the East Florida expedition to St. Augustine, under Capt. Josiah Greer and Lt. Col. Robert McCrery. Ill for weeks on the return march.
Piney House — his own words, S7157illness site — Wickware 1936
Tour 2 Jan 1779
~36–37 days on horseback pursuing “a certain Boyd,” whose ~500 Tories aimed to join the British at Savannah.
no waypoint named
Tour 3 Jun–Jul 1779
On foot against the British at Stono, under Capt. Joseph Greer and Maj. Robert Gillam.
Tour 4 Aug–Oct 1779
Two months on horseback against the Creek Nation, same captain, Maj. Gillam, and Brig. Gen. Andrew Williamson.
no route detailed
Tour 5 Mar–May 1780
Marched beyond Augusta, toward Charleston under Pickens — already fallen — then to Camden, where Gov. Rutledge sent them home. McCrery’s whole company surrendered to Tories on this retreat.
dismissal at “the Ridge” — Wickware 1936
Tour 6 Nov 1780–1782/83
As a refugee under Col. Joseph Hayes and Capt. Samuel Ewing, joining Sumter, then Morgan: Hammond’s Store, Williams’ Fort, Cowpens, and on to the Dan River, where he took smallpox. Returned to serve under Dillard and Casey “whenever needed” to war’s end.