The King’s Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle, with Sketches of the American Soldiers who Took Part

This is an important work on the men who participated in the battle of King’s Mountain, drawn from contemporary records of Southwest Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee, with letters, documents, and additional material taken from the Lyman Draper Collection.

The first section of the book is a miscellany of court records of Watauga, Washington County, North Carolina (later Tennessee), 1778–1782, and contains, in addition, militia rosters for the years 1777 and 1779 and pension declarations filed by King’s Mountain participants and their heirs. Chapters include: The Battle of King’s Mountain, Watauga and Its Records, General John Sevier, Letter by Draper to Martin, Letters by Christian to Draper, Franklin and the Whites, Militia Rosters, Incident in the Life of Alexander Moore, Greer and McElwee Data, Diary of Captain Alexander Chesney, and Sundry Pension Declarations.

Section Two, Personal Sketches of King’s Mountain Soldiers, is composed of biographical sketches of the soldiers, numbering close to 1,000 and arranged in alphabetical order. An appendix (Tennessee Revolutionary Pensioners List), a bibliography, and an index to full names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.

Katherine Keogh White

(1924), 2024, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 280 pp.

ISBN: 9780788442650

101-W4265