Note 1140 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

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.