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- f you do not stop fighting against the King, I shall march this army over the mountains, hang your leaders and destroy your homeland with fire and sword. Col. Patrick Ferguson to the Overmountain settlers, summer 1880. NPS, 2003. Footsteps to Freedom
- Boys, I believe you all did your duty, and deserve well for it but let me tell you, had it not been for Campbell and his Virginians, I'll be d—d if Ferguson would not have been on that mountain yet, had he chosen to stay there
- Maj. Lewis speaking to his brothers of the Cleveland regiment (Source:Draper, 1881
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