NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
POPULAR STUDY SERIES

History No. 12

Rifles and Riflemen
at the
Battle of Kings Mountain

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, J. A. KRUG, Secretary

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, NEWTON B. DRURY, Director

Reprinted 1947

CONTENTS

Page [Kings Mountain, A Hunting Rifle Victory] 1 [The American Rifle at the Battle of Kings Mountain] 8 [Testing the Ferguson Rifle—Modern Marksman Attains High Precision With Arm of 1776] 19

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