This video titled, "The Battle of Lindley"s Mill," was a story of the revolution war in Alamance County, North Carolina. The video was produced by The Alamance County Historical Association and Alamance County Historic Properties Commission. The story informed Alamance students of the ambush on Cane Creek, to be known as the Battle of Lindley"s Mill. The video was a re-enactment on the battle site at Stafford Branch and Cane Creek in southern Alamance County, North Carolina. The revolution story began with an explanation of the Whig " Tory war in 1775 between the British and North Carolinians, who were divided. The Whigs were individuals who wanted independence from the British and become patriots. The Tories were people who wanted to remain with the British colonies and become loyalists. Hence the battles in North Carolina began in 1776. The Battle of Lindley's Mill (also known as the Battle of Cane Creek) which took place in Orange County, North Carolina (now in Alamance County), in 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. The battle took its name from a mill that sat at the site of the battle on Cane Creek, which sat along a road connecting what was then the temporary state capital, Hillsborough, with Wilmington, North Carolina. On Wednesday, September 12, 1781, at 7:00am, loyalist militia, under the command of militia colonels David Fanning and Hector McNeill, captured Governor Thomas Burke and thirteen high-ranking Whig officials in a daylight raid on Hillsborough. The captured officials were to be transported down the road to Wilmington where they would be turned over to the British Army. Brigadier General John Butler, whose home was located nearby, and 300 patriot militiamen of the Hillsborough District Brigade, set an ambush at Lindley"s Mill the next day. Lindley's Mill was located on Cane Creek, a tributary of the Haw River. Upon the Loyalist approach, the Patriot militia sprung their trap, surprising Fanning and his men. The loyalist forces were forced to ford Cane Creek in order to assault the patriot positions, which were on a plateau overlooking the creek. The elderly Hector McNeill, the commander of a unit of loyal Highlanders, was cut down early in the battle, leading the vanguard of Fanning's militia across the creek. The British failed to gain any ground against the Patriot"s position until Fanning and a larger company forded the creek upstream from Butler's position and attacked the Patriot militia from their flank. This put the militia on the defensive, and the battle persisted for five hours, until eventually Butler felt compelled to order his men to retreat due to casualties. In spite of Butler's order, a contingent of men attempted to continue holding their ground, but they were ultimately dislodged by Fanning. Between 200 and 250 men were killed or wounded in the battle, with the Tory force suffering due to the loss of McNeill and serious wounds received by Fanning, who was forced to hide in the woods when his column moved on. Among those wounded was Dr. John Pyle, who had earlier commanded an ill-fated regiment of loyalist militia at Pyle's Massacre. After recovering from his wounds, Pyle helped to nurse many other wounded men, patriots, and loyalists alike, back to health, for which service Governor Alexander Martin would later pardon Pyle's loyalist activities. The governor was not rescued by the patriots, and was successfully imprisoned on James Island. The battle effectively closed the war in North Carolina one month before Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the British Army, but did not serve to dampen patriot sentiments in North Carolina. This production was produced for the Alamance School system in 1981 by Pat Bailey, John Braxton, Judy Braxton, B. DuPree, Carole Troxler, and George Troxler.