Sketches of Western North Carolina Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg Rowan Lincoln and Adjoining Counties

This work consists almost entirely of biographical sketches of Revolutionary War officers and soldiers from the North Carolina counties of Burke Cabarrus Cleveland Gaston Iredell Lincoln Mecklenburg Rowan and Wilkes with considerable information on them and extensive genealogies of their families. Hunter uses a county-by-county arrangement to portray in toto a history of the Revolutionary War in the western and southwestern half of the state. The chapter on Cleveland County with its references to the American commanders at the Battle of King's Mountain is of particular interest to students of the Revolutionary War. With an Added Index of Names.