 Hogun was in command of North Carolina 's line brigade during the Siege of Charleston in the spring of 1780 , which ended in the surrender of all but one of North Carolina 's regiments of regular infantry as well as more than 5 @,@ 000 Patriot soldiers under Major General Benjamin Lincoln . Hogun was the highest @-@ ranking officer from North Carolina to be captured and imprisoned after the surrender of Charleston , and despite being offered the opportunity to leave internment under a parole that was generally extended to other captured Continental officers , he remained in a British prisoner @-@ of @-@ war camp near Charleston . Hogun likely chose imprisonment in order to prevent the British Army from recruiting Continental soldiers for its campaign in the West Indies . He became ill and died in the prison on Haddrel 's Point , a peninsula in Charleston 's harbor . 
