Qualla: Battle of Dingle's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-dingle-s-mill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Dingle's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-dingle-s-mill Battle of Dingle's Mill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-dingle-s-mill/ Three hundred miles north, on the same April afternoon, Robert E. Lee was meeting Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Courthouse to discuss surrender terms. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had reached its end. None of this was known yet at Dingle's Mill, three miles south of Sumter, South Carolina, where Confederate militia were dug in behind makeshift breastworks waiting for Union troops to come up the road from Kingstree. A Confederate volunteer would later remember hearing church bells in Sumter ringing for Easter afternoon service as the fight got underway. It was April 9, 1865, and the war was already over - the men at Dingle's Mill simply had not been told.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/b/battle-of-dingle-s-mill-wp/dnnb-battle-of-dingles-mill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Dingle's Mill: Sherman's Order https://qualla.com/battle-of-dingle-s-mill/ The mission had come down from William Tecumseh Sherman with characteristic bluntness: 'Those cars and locomotives should be destroyed if to do it costs you 500 men.' Major General Quincy A. Gillmore handed the job to Brigadier General Edward E. Potter, who took command of a 2,70...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/b/battle-of-dingle-s-mill-wp/dnnb-battle-of-dingles-mill-shermans-order.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Dingle's Mill: Behind the Breastworks https://qualla.com/battle-of-dingle-s-mill/ Confederate militiamen under Colonel James Fowler Pressley had thrown up meager earthworks at the millpond and settled in to wait. They had two working artillery pieces - a third was too rusted to fire. Lieutenant William Alexander McQueen commanded one. The other was crewed by L...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/b/battle-of-dingle-s-mill-wp/dnnb-battle-of-dingles-mill-behind-the-breastworks.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Dingle's Mill: Twenty Minutes That Ended a State https://qualla.com/battle-of-dingle-s-mill/ When the assault finally came, Lieutenant Pamerya was killed almost immediately - a Minie ball took him in the forehead. Lieutenant McQueen went down with a shoulder wound. With both artillery officers out, the Confederate line buckled. Pressley's men fell back toward Sumterville...

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