Dingle's Mill in Sumter, South Carolina

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Sumter, South Carolina, USA

Coordinates: 33.87613, -80.33623
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Located on small battlefield site on US 521 to Manning, SC South of Sumter

Battle of Dingle's Mill

By Mike Stroud, 2010

1. Battle of Dingle's Mill Marker

Here on Apr. 9, 1865, the day of Gen. Lee's surrender, was fought one of the last battles of the War between the States. 158 Confederates rallied by Col. Geo. W. Lee stopped, for several hours, the advance of 2700 Union troops under Gen. Edward E. Potter. Casualties: Confederate 12; Union 26.

A Confederate homeguard of old men, boys, and convalescents here made a gallant stand in an effort to halt Potter's Raid, an expedition which left Georgetown on April 5, laid waste the country, and by April 21 had accomplished its chief objective—the destruction of the railroads between the Pedee and Wateree.