I dug out our copy of the 1940s historical novel
Tory Oath yesterday and started rereading it for the first time since we left Drowning Creek down east.
The American Revolution in the southern colonies had much of the flavor of a civil war. The headlines today hearken back to those times, though the names were Tories and Whigs not BLMANTIFA and whoever.
There were so many Scots settlers in the region (SCOTLAND County??) that in Robeson, whites were referred to commonly (though usually not in their presence) as "Macks" because there were so many Mac this and Mc thats. The king's forces planned to rally loyalist Scots to the crown, calling on the oath they had to swear to be allowed to leave the kingdom after Culloden. A couple of British officers were even sent to Cross Creek (now Fayetteville) with orders to rally the Highlanders and lead them down to support a British landing at Brunswick Town below the Cape Fear.
When the Whigs got wind of this they organized a countering force, stole a march on the loyalists and defeated them at the Widow Moore's bridge in one of the early significant (though small in scale) actions of the Revolution.
This young man does a good job narrating the action at the scene of the fight-
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruc_IiN6Tkc
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
RT 10:09