Author: Katherine Keogh White

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-17

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780331245363

Excerpt from The King's Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle, With Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part The list in this book, of the heroes who won the battle of King's Mountain, does not assume to be complete. So far as I am aware, no rosters are in existence. Historians are not agreed as to the number of the Americans who were in the expedition. The general Opinion is that it was between one thousand and twelve hundred. I had this number in mind when I began a search for the names of the individual soldiers, and an authentic record in each instance of the soldier's service, in the war of the Revolu tion. While investigating county records, land grants, pension statements, and other sources of information, I came upon many stories of their lives, especially in the records of Washington county, Tennessee, in 1777-1780. These stories, so full of human interest, often begin before the date of the battle. The narratives introduce us to a life of tragedy as well as romance, on the inland frontier of Virginia and the Carolinas, wild savages and ferocious beasts menacing them at all times. Nowhere else in the American States were the souls of men more nearly strained to the breaking-point. Without official permis sion and without assurance of reward, these heroes of the frontier came together as brothers and neighbors, and formed a volunteer army to protect their families and their country. In this book I aim to bring out the human interest which is so overlooked in the admirable histories of the American Revolution. Thus I present, without change, the letters written to Lyman Draper by James Sevier, Gil bert Christian, John Sevier, and William Martin. Not only do these letters afford proof of military service by some of the frontiersmen, but they throw direct light on the expedition itself and on other combats with their enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.