BGuthrie Photos: NC -- Moores Creek Natl Battlefield

NC -- Moores Creek Natl Battlefield:

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Description of Pictures: This visit included an unexpected arrival by Ed Bearss, the famous Civil War tour leader, who was showing a group around for battles of North Carolina, both American Revolution and Civil War.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MOORE_011015_001.JPG: "The Wilmington and Fayetteville Stage Road route taken by British and Tory army from Cross Creek to join Lord Cornwallis and Clinton at Wilmington. They were defeated in the battle of this place. 850 were captured as prisoners of war Feb 27, 1776."
2. MOORE_011015_004.JPG: "Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, February 27, 1776. Here stood the bridge of Revolutionary fame where 1000 patriots under Cols Richard Caswell and Alexander Lillington defeated 600 Loyalists led by Captain McLeod. Col James Moore commanded all the patriots who embodied to oppose the Loyalists under Brig Gen Donald McDonald."
3. MOORE_011015_007.JPG: Here's the creek that the British needed to get around. It was very deep here at the time -- perhaps 15 feet -- so a bridge was crucial.
4. MOORE_011015_013.JPG: This is Ed Bearss, the famous Civil War historian who was here with a group studying the Civil War and American Revolution battles in the state.
5. MOORE_011015_024.JPG: "Here fell Captain McLeod, Captain Campbell, and about fifty Highland Coats, Loyalists, who with splendid courage, assaulted with Claymore, the American intrenchments [sic]. They were heroes who did their duty as they saw it, and are worthy of the tribute from the descendants of the equally brave men whom they fought. Peace to the their ashes."
Wikipedia Description: Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was fought near Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1776, between North Carolina patriots and Scottish Loyalists.

The American victory helped spur sentiment for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their forces.

Background:

A group of Loyalist troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Donald McLeod, an 80-year-old experienced British officer, assembled on February 15 in response to the Patriot movements in the region.

McLeod led a force of about 700 Scots Highland emigrants and 800 Loyalist militia towards the Atlantic coast, with plans to join a group of British regulars at Moore's Creek Bridge, located about 20 miles (30 km) north of Wilmington. Among the force was Captain Alan MacDonald, husband of the famous Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald.

A group of around 1,000 Patriot volunteers and minutemen decided to contest the Loyalist march to the coast.

Battle:

At dawn on February 27, 1776, the Highland Scots, under the command of Lt. Colonel McLeod and Captain John Campbell, arrived at the bridge to find it blocked by Americans, commanded by Colonels Alexander Lillington and Richard Caswell.

The Loyalists rushed at the bridge, only to be met by heavy Patriot fire at point-blank range. With the whole attacking party cut down in just 3 minutes, the Americans rushed across the bridge in a counter-attack, forcing the remaining Highlanders and Loyalists to flee.

The Patriots were victorious, having lost only one man killed and another wounded, while inflicting about 30 casualties, including the deaths of both McLeod and Campbell, to their enemy and preventing the planned rendezvous with the British regulars.

Over 850 Loyalist were captured over the next few days.

Aftermath:

Although not realizing it at the time, the Patriot victory helped to check the Loyalist sentiment in the colony, but it fanned the fires of the revolutionary fervor to bring most of the North and South Carolina colonies into the fight against the British army.

Historical site:

The Federal government took over the battle site as a National Park operated by the War Department in 1926; the National Park Service began managing the battlefield in 1933.

For over a century, the Moores Creek National Battlefield has evolved as a historical site preserving and interpreting the 1776 battle.

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Moores Creek National Battlefield
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moores Creek National Battlefield is a United States National Battlefield managed by the National Park Service. The park commemorates the 1776 victory by 1,000 Patriots over 1,600 Loyalists at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. The battle ended Royal Governor Josiah Martin's hopes of regaining control of the colony for the British crown. The Loyalist defeat ended British plans for an invasionary force to land in Brunswick, North Carolina. The colony of North Carolina voted to declare independence from the British on April 12, 1776, shortly after the victory at Moore's Creek. The park was established as a National Military Park on June 2, 1926 and was redesignated as a National Battlefield on September 8, 1980.

1776 battle:

Loyalists, mostly Scottish Highlanders wielding broadswords, expected to find only a small Patriot force. As the Loyalists advanced across the bridge, Patriot shots rang out and dozens of Loyalists fell, including their commanders. One commander was Colonel Allan Macdonald, the husband of Flora MacDonald of Highland lore who aided Bonnie Prince Charlie following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden Moor in 1746.

Stunned, outgunned and leaderless, the Loyalists surrendered, retreating in confusion. Wagons, weapons and British sterling worth more than $1 million by today's value were seized by the Patriots in the days following the battle.

This dramatic victory ended British authority in the colony and greatly influenced North Carolina to be the first colony to vote for independence. The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, coupled with the Battle of Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina, a few months later, ultimately led the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence on July 4, 1776.

Park:

Throughout park, remnants remain of the 1776 road traveled by Patriot and Loyalist forces. A 1-mile (1.6 km) trail with wayside exhibits leads through the battlefield and across Moores Creek. The historic bridge site is located along the trail.

The park offers a visitor center with exhibits and audio-visual program, a 0.3 mile (500 m) colonial forest trail, and a picnic area.
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- Bearss, Ed appears on:
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  - 2014_TN_CWT_Group_1405 CWT Annual Conference (2014) in Nashville, TN -- Miscellaneous Shots
  - 2014_TN_CWT_Dinner_140529 CWT Annual Conference (2014) in Nashville, TN -- Reception and Dinner
  - 2014_TN_CWT_Shaara_140529 CWT Annual Conference (2014) in Nashville, TN -- Better History through Storytelling w/Jeff Shaara
  - 2014_TN_CWT_Nashville_140529 CWT Annual Conference (2014) in Nashville, TN -- Civil War Nashville Walking Tour w/Ed Bearss
  - 2014_TN_CWT_Signing_140529 CWT Annual Conference (2014) in Nashville, TN -- Meet and greet
  - 2014_TN_CWT_WvsE_140529 CWT Annual Conference (2014) in Nashville, TN -- Western Theater vs the Eastern Theater (w/Garry Adelman and Eric Jacobson)
  - 2013_PA_Lincoln_Group_131119 Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia -- Miscellaneous Gettysburg Dedication Day pictures
  - 2013_PA_Lincoln_GroupT_131119 Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia -- Tour of Gettysburg w/Ed Bearss
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