**The Battle of Kings Mountain and the Turning of the Southern War**
PEOPLE
Major Patrick Ferguson
British Army Officer, Loyalist Militia Commander, Firearms Inventor
Colonel Isaac Shelby
Overmountain Leader, Watauga Settlement Militia Commander, First Governor of Kentucky
Colonel John Sevier
Overmountain Leader, Watauga Settlement Militia Commander, First Governor of Tennessee
Colonel William Campbell
Virginia Militia Commander, Overmountain Co-Commander
KEY EVENTS
STORIES
HISTORICAL VOICE
No British Soldiers
The thing people miss about Kings Mountain is who wasn't there. No British regulars. No Continental Army. Just Americans — some fighting for independence, some for the Crown, some because their neighb...
MODERN VOICE
They Came Over the Mountains
Every year in September and October, people walk the Overmountain Victory Trail — over Yellow Mountain Gap, down through the Toe River valley, across the Piedmont to Kings Mountain. It takes about two...