Qualla: Battle of Musgrove Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-musgrove-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/j/u/battle-of-musgrove-mill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Musgrove Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-musgrove-mill Battle of Musgrove Mill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-musgrove-mill/ Photo credit John Foxe, Public domain. The fight took perhaps an hour. When it ended, sixty-three Loyalists lay dead and seventy more were prisoners. The Patriots had lost four killed and twelve wounded. The ratio was lopsided enough to be remembered in a war full of disasters - and on August 19, 1780, the Patriots needed something to remember. Three days earlier, General Horatio Gates had managed one of the great American military catastrophes at Camden, scattering a Continental army that was supposed to liberate the South. What happened on a ridge above a ford of the Enoree River that August morning didn't undo Camden. But it proved the backcountry could not be held by the Loyalists, even when the British appeared to be winning everywhere else.

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