Battle of Elizabethtown

Whigs broke Tory power in Bladen County, August, 1781, driving them into Tory Hole, 50 yards north.

Marker is on West Broad Street (North Carolina Route 87) west of Poplar Street (U.S. 701), on the right when traveling west.

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Elizabethtown Battle

Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan on his second raid into Kentucky, with 3,900 men, was met by 652 Union troops under Lt. Col. H.S. Smith, Dec. 27, 1862. Object of raid was destruction of L & N R.R. main artery ...