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Night attack by Wade’s Tory band near Piney Bottom
A Whig expedition caravan crosses Cape Fear and camps near Sproal's ferry. John McNeill and Wade clash at Long Street as Tories ambush the sleeping company. Duncan McCallum guns a sentry, five or six are killed, a motherless boy begs for parole but is slain by Ferguson. Wagons are looted, burned, and later valuables recovered. buried dead show signs of wolves and scorched graves.
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Pedee
Cape Fear
Sproal’s
McNeill’s Ferry
Marren McDaniel
John McDaniel
Daniel Munroe
John McNeill
Archd
Jennet (Bann) McNeill
Anderson’s Creek
Long Street
Wade
Folsone
Piney Bottom
Sentinel
Duncan McCallum
McCallum
Duncan Ferguson
Ferguson
Colonel McDougal
McNeills
Bans
Malcom
Culp
Malcom Munro
Allen Cameron
Neill Smith
Philip Hodges
McCranie