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Invasion of the Sandhills by Massachusetts Volunteers
Moore County recounts the 1865 Sandhills invasion as Sherman’s corps advance, Kilpatrick’s cavalry clashing with Wheeler and Hampton. It details cross-bridges, river crossings at Lumbee Drowning Creek, Pinehurst to Southern Pines routes, and a rear-guard wagons crossing under pine torchlight.
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Old Dixie
Sherman
Sandhills
Judson Kilpatrick
Joe Wheeler
Wade Hampton
Lumbee
Drowning Creek
Pumpelly’s
Samarcand
Sandhill
Pinehurst
Jackson Springs
Wagram
Morganton Road
Gilead
Robert Hunter
Century