Massacre at Piney Bottom revisited in Moore County history
The Moore County Papers recounts a Revolutionary War clash near Southern Pines on the road to Raeford. It details Colonel David Fanning and Tory clans, the pursuit by Minute Men, and the Massacre at Piney Bottom, with local memory preserved by settlers and a monument being placed.
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Southern Pines
Raeford
Cornwallis
David Fanning
Pinehurst
America
Fanning
Union
Piney Bottom
Tory and Whig clash across North Carolina
An account details fierce Civil War era fighting in the Cape Fear Pedee region. Tories capture Sandhills as Gates falls at Camden and British overrun South Carolina. families flee to Whig lands along Neuse and Pedee rivers. Captains Clap and McKish, Colonel Wade, and Archd McKish suffer losses. property destroyed before return.
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Neill McCranie
Armstrong
Fayetteville
Little Rockfish
Mathew’s
Crane’s Creek
Moore County
Cape Fear
Pedee Rivers
Gates
Camden
South Carolina
Pedee
North Carolina
Whig
Neuse River
Clap
Wade
Anson County
Archd. McKish
Ashpole
Robeson County
McPherson’s Mill Creek
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the Gorham Company
the Gorham CO. Silversmiths and Goldsmiths
New York
Gorham
Brookline
THE
Revo
Sandhills
OLD Chronicle
Tories
Sandhilds
General Green
Colonel Wade
Captain Culp