Lee County · Marker 31-04

Skirmish at Spring Hill

Spring Hill Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 31-7), 6.4 mi. W of Manville at Spring Hill

Front inscription

Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 Federal troops left Georgetown on April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. On April 16 after a skirmish with militia under Col. James F. Pressley he camped at Spring Hill nearby. The McKinley Barfield home which stood on this site bore scars of the skirmishing on its walls.

County
Lee

Region
Pee Dee

City or vicinity
Spring Hill

Year approved
1963/64

Erected by
Lee County Historical Commission

Coordinates
34.144933, -80.428117

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