SWVP Participants at Kings Mt

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From Source:Draper, 1881

Colonel Campbell's Virginians, who fought so nobly and persistently throughout the action, met with severer losses than any other regiment engaged in this hard day's contest. Of the killed were Captain William Edmondson, Lieutenants Reece Bowen, William Blackburn, and Robert Edmondson, Sr., Ensigns Andrew Edmondson, John Beattie, James Corry, Nathaniel Dryden, Nathaniel Gist, James Philips, and Humberson Lyon, and private Henry Henigar. Lieutenant Thomas McCulloch, and Ensign James Laird, who were mortally wounded, died a few days thereafter. Captain James Dysart, Lieutenants Samuel Newell, Robert Edmondson, Jr., and eighteen privates wounded,* of whom were Fredrick Fisher, John Skeggs Benoni Banning, Charles Kilgore, William Bullen, Leonard Hyce, Israel Hayter, and William Moore, who recovered. The names of the other ten disabled Virginians have not been preserved. So badly wounded was William Moore, that his leg had to be amputated on the field. He was necessarily left at some good Samaritan's; but when his associates returned to their distant Holston homes, and told the story of their victory, and its cost in life and suffering, his devoted wife, on learning her husband's terrible misfortune, though in the month of November, mounted her horse and rode all the " long and dreary journey to the neighborhood of King's Mountain—such was the intrepidity of the frontier women, as well as the men, of those trying times ; and having nursed him until sufficiently recovered, she conveyed him home, and he lived to a good old age, * dying in 1826, after having received from the Government an invalid pension for thirty- seven years. It is remarkable, that thirteen officers to only a single private of Campbell's men, were killed or mortally wounded during the battle—nearly one-half of the fatalities of the whole Whig force engaged in the contest. This disparity of losses between the leaders and privates is a striking proof how fearlessly the officers exposed themselves in rallying the regiment when broken, and leading on their men by their valor and heroic examples to victory. One-third of the wounded were of Campbell's regiment. Another remarkable fact is, that of eight Edmondsons of the Virginia troops, engaged that day, three were killed, and one was wounded—all prominent and efficient officers of that corps ; the survivors having been William Edmondson, the major of the regiment, and privates John, Samuel, and William Edmondson. Thus the names of those who fell and those who were disabled, of the several Whig regiments, so far as we have been able to collect them, number twenty-six killed, and a nameless one of Hammond's men, who fell, who had a premonition of his fate; and thjrjty.^,ix_wounded. There must have been several others killed, beside those whose names are given in the several lists, and some twenty-six additional ones wounded. It does not appear that there was a single Surgeon among the Americans, and Doctor Johnson only, of three Surgeons of Ferguson's men, survived, who seems to have generously attended the wounded of the Whigs, as well as those of his own corps. But the frontier people were much accustomed, from necessity, with splints, bandages, and slippery elm poultices, to treating gun-shot wounds and other disabilities.

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Samuel Ncwell's letter to General Francis Preston, states that Campbell's regiment had thirty-five killed and wounded. As fourteen were killed including two officers who shortly after died of their wounds, it would leave twenty-one wounded, three of whom were officers.