 He had become separated from his scouting party, encountered a party of British light dragoons, and was shot in the side (accounts differ as to whether this occurred before or after he surrendered).He was taken into Yorktown, but because of the gravity of his wound he was paroled to Williamsburg, only to die on October 6.Possibly he was buried in Williamsburg A monument was erected in Williamsburg to Scammell but may never have been engraved the following inscription