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The Overmountain Victory Trail Celebration in Spruce Pine honors a band of Southern patriots who won a key battle at King's Mountain during the Revolution.
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Beginning in 1975 and held each September since, a reenactment of the Overmountain Victory March takes place. The march honors a the mountain men who were victorious at Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War. Armed with a horn, a scroll, and Bible, and dressed in clothing of the time period, the group begins at Sycamore Shoals and marches 160 miles to Kings Mountain.
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Colonel William Graham, Cleveland County delegate to the Third and Fifth Provincial Congresses in 1775 and 1776, ran afoul of public opinion during his tenure as Commander of the South Fork militia during the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. After leaving the area with permission to attend to his ailing wife, his successor in command, Major Chronicle, as well as eight of Graham's men, was killed in the battle. Additionally, Chronicle's replacement, Lt. Col. Frederick Hambright and eight enlisted men were seriously wounded. Graham emerged unscathed physically but was branded by some as a cowardly deserter, despite conflicting reports that he participated vigorously in the battle.
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Many famous names have been associated with Cleveland County. Three men, whose names loom large in the pages of history, are closely identified with Cleveland County and its capital, Shelby. They are Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, the hero of the Battle of Kings' Mountain; Colonel Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky; and Major Patrick Ferguson, the inventor of the breech-loading rifle.
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Celebration of the 159th anniversary of the Battle Kings Mountain on October 7th will hold special significance for the Carolinas and the nation at large. On this occasion the public will get their first opportunity to see the national park that has been developed around the battlefield.
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21332
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Harris, a descendant of a Revolutionary War soldier, Samuel Johnson of Wilkes County, recounts his war experiences and the battle at King's Mountain. He entered the war as a private 1776 and eventually promoted and received an officer's commission as Captain. Harris conducted a memorial service for his ancestor in August 2001 at the Little Stone Mountain Baptist Church in Traphill, NC. Later at the graveyard, a new marble headstone which was supplied by the US Veterans Administration was unveiled.
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Today, hikers can walk the historic trail that ‘Backwater men’ or ‘Overmountain men’ took when combating British forces during the American Revolutionary War in 1780. These men traveled the Big Yellow Mountain Gap to Kings Mountain and defeated Major Patrick Ferguson’s troops.
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