Andrew Pickens

Life and Orange County connections

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1. February 18, 1781 Lee's Legion joins Pickens's militia camp after the Hart's Mill raid Later the same day as the Hart's Mill raid, Henry Lee's Legion, returning from beyond the Dan River with Greene's army, reached General Andrew Pickens's militia at a farm up Stony Creek, where the camp at first took the horsemen for Tarleton's cavalry. The combined force then went after Tarleton west of the Haw, the movement that led to Pyle's defeat. People: Andrew Pickens, Joseph Graham (1759-1836)Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements: Pension application of Joseph Graham S6937
2. February 18, 1781 Patriots and Loyalists clash at Hart’s Mill At daybreak about 45 North Carolina cavalry under Captain Joseph Graham and mounted riflemen under Captain Richard Simmons, sent out by General Andrew Pickens, surprised the British guard of about 26 regulars and two Loyalists that was keeping Thomas Hart's mill on the Eno grinding for Cornwallis's army. Graham's accounts report the whole guard killed, wounded or captured with no Patriot dead, and the party reached Pickens's camp with its prisoners ahead of pursuing British cavalry. People: Andrew Pickens, Joseph Graham (1759-1836)Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements: Pension application of Joseph Graham S6937
3. February 25, 1781 Pyle's defeat near the Haw River Henry Lee's Legion and Andrew Pickens's militia attacked a few hundred Loyalist recruits under Dr. John Pyle who were riding to join Cornwallis at Hillsborough. Mistaking Lee's men for Tarleton's cavalry, the Loyalists were cut down, with more than 90 killed, on Michael Holt's land, then in Orange County and now in southern Alamance. People: Andrew PickensNC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Pyle's Defeat (Highway Historical Marker G-22)
4. February 1781 Greene sends Pickens's militia to shadow the British army at Hillsborough Nathanael Greene ordered Brigadier General Andrew Pickens to pass around the British force at Hillsborough, fall in its rear and report its movements. Pickens's men struck at British parties when they could, and he sent Captain Joseph Graham to scout the ground around the town. People: Nathanael Greene, Joseph Graham (1759-1836)Search the index · Carolana: The American Revolution in North Carolina, Hart's Mill
5. March 2, 1781 Pickens's cavalry fights Tarleton's horse at Clapp's Mill An American force ambushed Banastre Tarleton's cavalry at Clapp's Mill on Alamance Creek, in the part of Orange County that became Alamance County in 1849. Forty of Pickens's cavalry under Captains Joseph Graham and Richard Simmons took part. The American second line broke and the British lost about twenty-one men. People: Joseph Graham (1759-1836)Search the index · MyRevolutionaryWar: The Battle of Clapp's Mills