The Battle of Lindley's Mill

Newlin has written that the opposing leaders of the Battle of Lindley’s Mill were well-matched. Colonel David Fanning headed a Loyalist regiment, and General John Butler was the commander of the Whigs. The bloody struggle, which took place six months after the Battle of Guilford Court House, was almost entirely a civil war between Whigs and Tories for control of North Carolina because no one engaged in the hard-fought conflict could have imagined that within a month Lord Cornwallis would surrender his army at Yorktown.