Battle of Raft Swamp
- Loyalist militia
Colonel Archibald McDugald
Colonel Hector "One-Eyed Hector" McNeill [a]
Major Joseph Graham
50 wounded
15 - 20 captured
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1780–1783
- 1st Mobile
- Charleston
- Moncks Corner
- Lenud's Ferry
- Waxhaws
- Mobley's Meeting House
- Ramsour's Mill
- Huck's Defeat
- Colson's Mill
- Rocky Mount
- Hanging Rock
- Camden
- Fishing Creek
- Musgrove Mill
- Wahab's Plantation
- Black Mingo
- Charlotte
- Kings Mountain
- Shallow Ford
- Tearcoat Swamp
- Fishdam Ford
- Blackstock's Farm
1781
- The Village
- Cowpens
- Cowan's Ford
- Torrence's Tavern
- Summerfield
- Pyle's Massacre
- Wetzell's Mill
- Pensacola
- Guilford Court House
- Fort Watson
- Hobkirk's Hill
- Fort Motte
- Portevent’s Mill
- Augusta
- Ninety-Six
- House in the Horseshoe
- Elizabethtown
- Eutaw Springs
- Lindley's Mill
- Raft Swamp
1782
1783
The Battle of Raft Swamp was fought near Red Springs, North Carolina in Robeson County, on October 15, 1781 during the American War of Independence.[6] Raft Swamp was well known for being a refuge for Loyalists during the American Revolution. On October 15, 1781, in the course of Gen. Griffith Rutherford's expedition against Wilmington, the Patriot cavalry vanguard commanded by Maj. Joseph Graham[7] briefly engaged with some mounted Loyalists of Col. Hector "One-Eyed Hector" McNeill on Rockfish Creek.[8] Major Graham's calvary charged and broke the Loyalist cavalry and led to fierce combat on the narrow causeway, as well as another clash on a second causeway. A series of charges and confused engagements resulted in the Loyalist forces scattering when darkness brought the action to a conclusion with the Patriots occupying the area. This would be the last battle fought in North Carolina.[9][10]Today, a state historic marker entitled with the name of the swamp denotes the site of the engagement. It reads as follows: "After the Tory victory at McPhaul's Mill, the Whigs routed the Tories near here on Oct. 15, 1781 and broke their resistance in the area."[11]
References
- ^ "Battle of Raft Swamp, Battle of McPhaul's Mill".
- ^ https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4624&context=gradschool_dissertations
- ^ a b https://uelac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Major-Samuel-Andrews-by-Sandra-Guinan.pdf
- ^ Chapter, John Sevier. "John Sevier Chapter". John Sevier Chapter.
- ^ "The American Revolution in North Carolina - Raft Swamp".
- ^ "Battle of Raft Swamp | American Revolution Tour of N.C." 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ "Joseph Graham | American Revolution Tour of N.C." 15 June 2020.
- ^ "The American Revolution in North Carolina - Raft Swamp". www.carolana.com. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ "List of Revolutionary War Battles, Raids & Skirmishes for 1781". American Revolutionary War. 2017-11-19. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ "NC History – North Carolina SAR". 17 January 2024.
- ^ "Raft Swamp Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org. Retrieved 2023-05-13.