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* Draper,"King's Mountain and its Heroes," pp. 151-53.
This was another phase of the character of the one-armed
Highlander whose final challenge to the backwater men was now
being considered in every log cabin beyond the hills. A man who
would not shoot an enemy in the back, who was ready to put the
same faith in another soldier's honor which he knew was due to
his own, yet in battle a wolfish fighter who leaped through the
dark to give no quarter and to take none--he was fit challenger
to those other mountaineers who also had a chivalry of their own,
albeit they too were wolves of war.
When Shelby on the Holston received Ferguson's pungent letter, he
flung himself on his horse and rode posthaste to Watauga to
consult, with Sevier. He found the bank of the Nolichucky teeming
with merrymakers. Nolichucky ,Jack was giving an immense barbecue
and a horse race. Without letting the festival crowd have an
inkling of the serious nature of Shelby's errand, the two men
drew apart to confer. It is said to have been Sevier's idea that
they should muster the forces of the western country and go in
search of Ferguson ere the latter should be able to get
sufficient reinforcements to cross the mountains. Sevier, like
Ferguson, always preferred to seek his foe, knowing well the
advantage of the offensive.
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