The Sullivan County Regiment was authorized on October 30, 1779 by the Province of North Carolina Congress.

The regiment was engaged in battles and skirmishes against the British during the American Revolution in Tennessee and South Carolina between 1780 and 1781.

Part of Sullivan County, North Carolina was ceded by North Carolina to the federal government in 1789 and this became Sullivan County, Tennessee.

[1] The Sullivan County regiment was involved in eleven known battles and skirmishes between June 1780 and November 1781.

These engagements took place in South Carolina and Tennessee.