The Overmountain Victory Trail Association
http://www.ovta.org/

King's MountainExtract of a Letter from Anthony Allaire
http://www.royalprovincial.com/history/battles/kingslet.shtml

The Battle Of King's Mountain
http://www.oklahoma.net/~kingfish/articles/king's.htm

Kings Mountain National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/kimo/

King's Mountain, 7 Oct. 1780, a turning point at last!
http://foclark.tripod.com/revwar/turning.html#Kingmtn

Excerpt from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Cyrus L. Hunter, 1877 CAPTAIN SAMUEL MARTIN
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sroots/samuel.htm

A Revised Version of Early Kilgores
http://www.cyberhighway.net/~cutter/cdsna/library/revised_kilgores.htm

AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAR IN SOUTH
http://members.aol.com/esarrett/sc/arw_hst5.htm

Alphabetical List of Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
http://www.archives.state.al.us/al_sldrs/first_pg.html

Common material for both BATTLES AT KINGS MOUNTAIN & COWPENS
http://jrshelby.com/kimocowp/
 

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Revolutionary War links in General

SOME OF MY FAVORITE LINKS
http://genweb.net/FranklinCoIL/links1.html

North Carolina in the Revolutionary War
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Encrevwar/ncrevwar.htm

Information on Military Units and Enlisted Men
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Encrevwar/rwpayroll.html

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NC
http://members.tripod.com/~records_searcher/index-5.html

NORTH CAROLINA LOYALISTS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
http://members.aol.com/HoseyGen/NCLOYALA.HTML

Moore's Creek Bridge Historic Site
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/moores.htm

American Revolutionary War Soldiers & Their Descendants
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ars/index.htm
 
 

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Notes

The best and most complete roster avauilable is _The Patriots at Kings
Mountain_, Dr. Bobby Gilmer Moss, 1990, Scotia Press, Blacksburg, SC. It is
currently avbailable and I have seen it at several history/southern oriented
book stores. Dr. Moss has used a variety of sources including Revolutionary
War pension applications to compile the list. No list of the participants
appears to exist from the time of the battle.

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I have a book titled "The overmountain men" that I bought at King's Mt.  It
has a ten and a half page list of men who fought.   I would be glad to look
for specific names.  Just, PLEASE, make your subject line clear that that is
what you want.  I'm going to be deleting a lot of message unread for a
while.  I have 8 stitches on my hand.  I knew there was a good reason I
don't like doing the dishes!

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I found some very good information on the overmountain men in a book on Ashe
County, North Carolina (there's a series with each county).  The problem it
seems, was that when the line of signal fires were lit to tell the militia
that the British were on the move, the men in Captain Osborne's company
(fort Osborne is near Independance Virginia on the Ashe County line so the
men were actually from both states) were not able to join their proper
commander and force, so they moved south east and joined a different
commander.  Their proper force did not record them because they were not
with them, and the other force did not record them because they were not
supposed to be with them.  Later NC court records authorize repayment to
Captain Osborne for supplies purchased for men at Kings Mountain and some
pension records refer to these men being there.  Just a matter of the
records not being complete.  There was also a very interesting and detailed
story about a man who road through the mountains alerting the outer areas, I
believe he ran a couple of horses to death and was nearly killed several
times, his route was several times longer and much more dangerous than Paul
Revere's...just no one wrote about anything famous about him.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.vsla.edu/mailarch/va_hist/1996/mar96/maillist.html+%22Battle+of+King%27s+Mountain%22&hl=en
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