Note 3 — II.
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The private orderly, or memorandum-book of Col. De Poister, on whom the command devolved after Ferguson was killed on King’s Mountain, and who ordered the surrender, was, with other papers, handed to Col. Sevier. This book was presented to the writer of this memoir by Mrs. Gen. Sevier and her son, G. W. S., after the writer’s marriage into the family.