Qualla: Battle of Lindley's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-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/_m/d/n/r/s/battle-of-lindley-s-mill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lindley's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-s-mill Battle of Lindley's Mill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-s-mill/ Photo credit Micahlt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hillsborough, the temporary capital of North Carolina, was raided in broad daylight on September 12, 1781. Loyalist militia under Colonel David Fanning and the elderly Colonel Hector McNeill rode straight into town, seized Governor Thomas Burke and thirteen high-ranking Whig officials, and turned south for the long ride to Wilmington, where the British army was waiting to take custody. Word of the kidnapping ran ahead of the column. Brigadier General John Butler of the Hillsborough District Brigade lived nearby. By the following morning, September 13, he had 300 Patriot militiamen waiting in ambush at a gristmill on Cane Creek - Lindley's Mill, owned by the Quaker family who had built it.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/s/battle-of-lindley-s-mill-wp/dnrs-battle-of-lindleys-mill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lindley's Mill: The Ambush at the Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-s-mill/ Photo credit Micahlt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cane Creek is a tributary of the Haw River, and at Lindley's Mill it ran through a small valley with a plateau on the far side. Butler put his men on the plateau, hidden in the trees overlooking the creek crossing, and waited. When Fanning's column came down the road with its pri...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/s/battle-of-lindley-s-mill-wp/dnrs-battle-of-lindleys-mill-the-ambush-at-the-mill.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lindley's Mill: Four Hours and a Flanking Column https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-s-mill/ Photo credit Micahlt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fanning was a tougher and more inventive commander than the situation might suggest. While the Patriot fire pinned his vanguard, he took a larger company and forded the creek upstream from Butler's position, climbed the same plateau the Patriots were defending, and turned to atta...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/s/battle-of-lindley-s-mill-wp/dnrs-battle-of-lindleys-mill-four-hours-and-a-flanking-column.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lindley's Mill: Two Bullets, Two Men https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-s-mill/ Photo credit Micahlt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Among the dead was Colonel Hector McNeill, the elderly Highlander, killed early when he led the vanguard across the ford. Among the Patriots, Major John Nall fell in single combat with another Loyalist officer in one of the war's improbable moments. Different accounts give the ex...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/s/battle-of-lindley-s-mill-wp/dnrs-battle-of-lindleys-mill-two-bullets-two-men.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lindley's Mill: The Wounded Surgeon https://qualla.com/battle-of-lindley-s-mill/ Photo credit Micahlt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fanning himself was seriously wounded in the action and had to be hidden in the woods when his column moved on with the prisoners. Among the other wounded was Dr. John Pyle, who had commanded the ill-fated Loyalist regiment massacred at Pyle's Massacre earlier that year and who c...

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