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The Salisbury District Brigade was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). This unit was established by the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress on May 4, 1776, and disbanded at the end of the war.
Colonel Lock assumed command from Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford who was selected as commander of the Salisbury District Brigade. Boundaries. The Salisbury District originally included Anson, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Surry, and Tryon counties.
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After a short reunion with his family, Rutherford trained and took command of 1,400 men of the Salisbury District Brigade and allegedly began to attack Tory militias and communities brutally, according to several reports sent to his superior, General Greene.
The Salisbury District Brigade was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). This unit was established by the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress on May 4, 1776, and disbanded at the end of the war.
The Salisbury District Brigade was a brigade of the North Carolina militia which served as a centralised command over the regiments close to the city of Salisbury. In August 1775, the Third Provincial Congress of North Carolina delegates appointed Cornelius Harnett the head of the Council of...
The Salisbury District Brigade was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). This unit was established by the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress on May 4, 1776, and disbanded at the end of the war.
On 4/22/1776, Griffith Rutherford was commissioned as a brigadier general over the newly-created Salisbury District Brigade of Militia. This appointment was rescinded on 5/1/1776, then reinstated on 5/4/1776. He retained this position until the end of the war.
