[1140] There are good accounts in the contemporary books, especially in Ramsay, Rev. in S. C., ii. 178; Gordon, iii. 462; Moultrie, ii. 242; Lee, Memoirs, i. 207; Stedman, ii. 220; and Tarleton, 164. Tarleton's account of Ferguson's campaign was displeasing to Mackenzie; cf. Strictures, 58. It was also very distasteful to Cornwallis, whom his former subordinate censured. Much can be gleaned from the local histories: W. B. Zeigler and B. S. Crosscup, The Heart of the Alleghenies or Western North Carolina (Raleigh, N. C., and Cleveland, Ohio, 1883, p. 219); Hunter, Sketches of Western North Carolina, 300; J. H. Logan, History of the Upper Country of South Carolina (Columbia, 1859), vol. i., all ever published, p. 68. Cf. also J. W. De Peyster in Historical Magazine, xvi. 189-197, and Magazine of American History, v. 401-424; Lossing, Field-Book, ii. 624, and American Historical Record, i. 529; Marshall, Washington, iv. 397; J. C. Hamilton, Hist. of the Republic, ii. 161; Am. Whig Rev., 2d series, ii. 580. Bancroft was present at the celebration in 1855, and made a speech. Cf. Celebration of King's Mountain, p. 75; Moore's Life of Lacey, etc. For poetry we have a rude ballad by an unknown author,—cf. Draper, 591; a poem by Paul H. Hayne in Harper's Monthly, lxi. 942; by W. G. Simms in Ibid. xxi. 670; and a stirring ballad, written shortly after the action, by an anonymous author in Moore, Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution, p. 335, and Draper, 592.
There is no good plan of this action. Foote (Sketches of Western North Carolina) says that Graham made "several plots of the ground showing the position of the different bands at different times." One of these, depicting the situation at the time of the surrender, has been printed. It should have accompanied the original publication of Graham's account in the Southern Literary Messenger (xi. 552), but was omitted. What I take to be the same is given by Major-General John Watts De Peyster in the Historical Magazine (xvi. 192), who says that it was first printed in the Southern Lit. Messenger, but when he does not say. He adds that it was copied in the University of North Carolina Magazine. A plan closely resembling it in general features is in Ramsay's Annals of Tennessee, p. 238. A fac-simile of this last is in Mag. of Am. Hist., v. 414. Draper (page 236) gives a Diagram of the Battle of King's Mountain, in which the corps are arranged to suit his ideas, together with a map of the neighboring region. There seems to be little doubt but that Graham's arrangement is faulty, and too favorable to Shelby. As to this officer, cf. Mag. of Western Hist. (Jan., 1887). Lossing gives views of the field (Field-Book, ii. 629, 634).
[1141] Cf. Ninth Report of Hist. MSS. Commission, App. iii. p. 109. The second of these is also in Cornwallis Cor., p. 495, and Clinton, Observations on Cornwallis, etc., App., 32.
[1142] Cf. Parl. Reg., xxv. 124; Fifth Report of Hist. MSS. Comm., 236; Political Mag., ii. 339; and Germain Cor., 10.
[1143] London Gazette, Feb. 13-17, 1781; Annual Register, 1780 (Principal Occurrences, p. 17); Clinton, Observations on Cornwallis, etc., App. p. 45; and Cornwallis Corres., i. 497. A short extract is in Tarleton, p. 203.
[1144] Cornwallis Corres., i. 57-74, and Clinton, Observations on Cornwallis, etc., pp. 29, 35.
[1145] Cf. also Marshall, Washington, iv. 336; G. W. Greene, Historical View of the American Revolution (Boston, 1865), pp. 265-281,—very laudatory. McRee, Life of Iredell (i. 481-565), contains, besides many interesting letters from and to the subject of the book, an explanatory text, in which the author endeavors to defend North Carolina from various charges that have been brought against her people and militia. Reminiscences of Dr. William Read in Gibbes, Doc. Hist. (1776-82), 270 et seq.; Randall, Life of Jefferson, i.; Kapp's Steuben, Am. edition, pp. 344-369; Le Boucher, i. 280, and ii. 17; Allen, Hist. Am. Rev., ii. 369-392; Caldwell's Greene, pp. 150-388; Reed's Reed, ii. 339-381; J. C. Hamilton, Life of A. Hamilton, i. 308, and History of the Republic, ii. 41, 133; Irving's Washington, iv. There is an interesting article in Harper's Monthly, xv. 159, on the first part of the campaign, and a good account of the later portion from the British side in the Political Mag., iv. 25-36.
Various letters of Greene after assuming command are in the Steuben Papers (copies in Sparks MSS., xv.). Washington's instructions are in Sparks, vii. 271. He reached Charlotte in December (Corresp. of Rev., iii. 165); Mag. of Amer. Hist., Dec., 1881; by Lewis Morris in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1875, p. 473; by C. W. Coleman in Mag. of Am. Hist., vii. 36, 201.
[1146] For a brief and appreciative notice of Williams, see Lee, Memoirs, i. 410. Cf. also A Sketch of the Life and Services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams, read before the Md. Hist. Soc. by Osmond Tiffany (Baltimore, 1851).
[1147] There is a short notice of William Washington in Lee, Memoirs, i. 399. See also Wyatt, 79-83.