. East Tennessee and the civil war . ion, they de-cided on the bold and daring plan of summoning their fol-lowers, marching at once across the mountains, and sur-prising and destroying their haughty enemy. When allthe facts are taken into account, perhaps no bolder or moreaudacious enterprise was ever conceived or it was in perfect harmony with the nature and spiritof these daring men. It was agreed that Colonel WilliamCampbell, commanding in Washington county, Virginia,adjoining Sullivan county, should be invited to join theexpedition with his force. He at first declined to do
. East Tennessee and the civil war . ion, they de-cided on the bold and daring plan of summoning their fol-lowers, marching at once across the mountains, and sur-prising and destroying their haughty enemy. When allthe facts are taken into account, perhaps no bolder or moreaudacious enterprise was ever conceived or it was in perfect harmony with the nature and spiritof these daring men. It was agreed that Colonel WilliamCampbell, commanding in Washington county, Virginia,adjoining Sullivan county, should be invited to join theexpedition with his force. He at first declined to do so,because he thought he could do more efiective service onthe southern border of his own state in resisting the ad-vance of Cornwallis. But on a second request fromColonel Shelby he changed his mind. He accordinglycalled out two hundred men, and promptly marched to theplace of rendezvous, at Sycamore Shoals, on the Shelby and Sevier each called out two hundred Kings Mountain and its Heroes, by Lyman Draper, p. SAMUEL DOAK, Founder and Firi^t President of Waaliiiujton College, 17SO, Battle of Kings Mountain. 21 and forty men from their respective commands. Notanother man could be spared. They were needed at hometo defend the settlements against the hostile Cherokees,who were ever ready to fall upon them. The money neces-sary for the expedition was raised on the personal creditof Shelby and Sevier. It was borrowed from John Adair,the entry taker of North Carolina, for Sullivan he when approached on the subject: The money isnot mine. I have no right to touch one cent of it. Butif our cause is lost, it will do the state no good. If by itsuse, we can save our liberties, surely I can trust thatcountry to justify and vindicate my conduct. Take it. Areply worthy to be engraved on marble,^ On the ever memorable 25th of September, 1780, therewas witnessed on the banks of the Watauga a scene whichwill go down in history as one of the striking event
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