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Updated: May 12, 2025
Williams certainly was not killed by Ferguson himself; and in all probability the latter was slain earlier in the action and in an entirely different part of the line. The "Loyalist" is also in error as to Cleavland's regiment being the first that was charged.
Campbell's.. 1 2 4 5 12 | 1 3 17 21 33 McDowell's.. 4 4 | 4 4 8 Thomas'..... | 8 8 8 Cleavland's. 8 8 | 1 2 10 13 21 Shelby's.... | Sevier's.... 2 2 | 10 10 12 Hayes'...... 1 1 | 3 3 4 Brannon's... | 3 3 3 Col. Williams'1 1 | 1 1 1 1 2 4 19 28 | 1 3 3 55 62 90 It will be seen that these returns are imperfect.
Once, in his absence, a tory horse-thief was brought to their home, and after some discussion the captors, Cleavland's sons, turned to their mother, who was placidly going on with her ordinary domestic avocations, to know what they should do with the prisoner. The tories were already on the alert.
On the extreme right Major Winston, splitting off from the main body a few minutes before, had led a portion of Cleavland's men by a roundabout route to take the mountain in the rear, and cut off all retreat. He and his followers "rode like fox-hunters," as was afterwards reported by one of their number who was accustomed to following the buck and the gray fox with horn and hound.
They do not include Shelby's loss; yet his regiment was alongside of Campbell's, did its full share of the work, and probably suffered as much as Sevier's, for instance. Winston's loss is doubtless included under Cleavland's. One of the most recent of them, Mr.
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