Hi Tom and all, Tom, thank you for your corrections. They make good sense. But, as I said before in an earlier posting (and someone said before me) "History is an account of something which never happened, written by someone who wasn't there." I think that may be a bit harsh - after all "where there's smoke - there is fire." It's like the blind men describing the elephant - each one feeling it at a different place. This was driven home to me when I started this genealogy stuff. The diarys and letters of the common private in the Civil war told a totally different story than the "history books." Then, who to believe? The one that makes the most common sense. Your statement about "second army could not sustain itself following another army" does indeed make sense. Not being a "battle buff" these are things that I was not aware of. From the Centennial History of Alamance County: Snow Camp The snows of February were deep and heavy. Travel was difficult, and by the time the British reached Cane Creek in southwestern Orange, they were forced to halt. Near the Cane Creek meeting house stood Simon DIXON's grist mill, and adjoining it, the stone house in which the miller and his wife lived. CORNWALLIS decided to establish a camp here and ordered his men to move the DIXON's to a neighboring home so he might use their house as his headquarters. DIXON himself was not a Tory, but he moved quietly and left the house to the British. The British tried to run the grist mill, but there was no a miller among them; and it was said that Simon DISON had jammed the mill wheel so that it would not operate. Another interesting story is told about Lord CORNWALLIS and Mrs. DIXON. Shortly after the family moved from the house, the General heard a loud argument outside of his door, and opened it to find two sentries talking with the miller's wife. "What is the trouble?" asked CORNWALLIS. The old lady boldly informed him that she had left her favorite pipe in the house and that she had returned to get it. Gallantly, CORNWALLIS escorted her inside and helped her search until she located the pipe, and then showed her out once again. Antoher legend said that some of CORNWALLIS' men believing that Simon DIXON possessed a money box tortured him with red hot lron tongs to make him reveal its location. For several days the Loyalist camped at the mill. Seventy beef cows were siezed from local farmers and slaughtered in a nearby field, and benches were dragged from the Cane Creek Church on which to cut up the meat. Rails from Simon DIXON's fences were used by the British as fire wood. Behind them the Tories left must desolation and the hatred of people who might have been their friends. CORNWALLIS, himself, it is said named the settlement "Snow Camp" which has remained its name until the present day. (Another story claims that Snow Camp was named by a party of hunters who stopped there to camp durning the winter of 1748). ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line