Overmountain
Men
The Grave of Captain Robert Sevier Located in Avery County |
"It is practically impossible for me to dwell very long
on the old timers like William Wiseman and so many others, who graced our
hills so many years ago, without drifting for a short time into one of the
biggest events that ever took place in our mountains - an event that
William and others lived through and helped accomplish. I am, of
course, referring to the great march to King's Mountain. The men of
our ridges and valleys stopped the everyday jobs of clearing the land, and
grubbing out a lifing between stumps to fall in with the men who had been
mustered together at Elizabethton, Tennessee - the 'Over the Mountain
Men.' All the lowlands had been conquered - British victory seemed
inevitable. But! when the word was sent into the mountain
country for our forefathers to surrender or else have their homes and
property destroyed, an unexpected answer was literally fired back.
The mountain men came marching down and met the notorious British
commander Ferguson at the now famous King's Mountain."
- From "Aunt Zona's Web" by Arizona Hughes - |
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The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain |
