Battle of Tranter's Creek at the mill buildings in which the Confederates were barricaded. Singletary was killed in the bombardment, and his troops retreated. The Federals did not pursue and returned to their fortifications at Washington. Battle of Tranter's Creek The Battle of Tranter's Creek was fought on June 5, 1862, in Pitt County, North Carolina, as part of Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War. On June 5, Col. Robert Potter, garrison commander at Washington, North Carolina, ordered a reconnaissance in the direction of Pactolus. The 24th Massachusetts, under Lt. Col. F. A. Osborne, advanced to
Battle of Rush Creek Battle of Rush Creek The Battle of Rush Creek took place February 8–9, 1865, between approximately 185 soldiers of the U.S. Army and 1,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The inconclusive battle took place four miles southeast of present-day Broadwater, Nebraska, along both banks of the North Platte River. After the Sand Creek Massacre in November 1864 in Colorado, the Plains Indians of the three tribes in that region decided to move northward to the more isolated Powder River Country of Wyoming and Montana. En route they sought revenge for Sand Creek, raiding along the South