Book Description

By: Katherine K. White, Pub. 1924, reprinted 2023, 272 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-131-9. This book is about the men who participated in the battle of King's Mountain. It was compiled from records of Southwest Virginia, North and South Carolina, 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. Section Two are biographical sketches of these soldiers, approximately 1,000 and arranged in alphabetical order.