Muster and March for Freedom Traditional Cache
Muster and March for Freedom
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Located in Abingdon’s historic district. Parking across from the old Dunn house.
The Battle of King's Mountain
1780 Revolutionary War
The men from this area didn't take a threat very well especially when you were talking about their families and their freedom. What happened is explained in this article by C. Hammett about the battle.
King's Mountain is unique in America's history: This battle—fought by 1,000 plus militiamen—without orders, formal military training, uniforms or provisions, and with no promise of pay—against the supposedly “superior forces” (1) of noted English Col. Patrick Ferguson—is credited by most early historians with having changed the course of the Revolution in the South, and may have even insured that the original number of colonies in these United States of America would be thirteen, not ten. (2)
In only one hour and five minutes, the American Whigs (Patriots, Rebels) totally decimated Ferguson's American Tories (Loyalists, Royalists), with every last man of them either dead or taken prisoner, and the Colonel himself left dead on the battlefield—having signed his own death warrant less than a month earlier when he sent a message from his camp in Gilbert Town, Rutherford County, North Carolina, to the “officers on the Western waters” (west of the Blue Ridge) that if they did not “desist from their opposition to the British army, and take protection under his standard, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword.” (3)
Col. Ferguson's warning was the result of his frustration over the refusal of most of the Overmountain men (east Tennessean and southwestern Virginians) to take the loyalty oath and to cease providing safe harbours for militiamen from the Carolinas and Georgia (who had eluded him after the August 16th defeat of American General Gates and the American army at the battle of Camden by retreating ”overmountain” to the “western waters”).
The cache is a quick park and grab.BYOP I hope you will want to spend some time reading the history of this area. Come out during the Abindon Highlands Festival and the Overmountain Men Association will be in the Mustering Grounds.
The parking area is across from the Mustering grounds no road crossing is required unless you stop to look around and go over and walk the original trail followed by the brave men from Washington county VA during that Sept.of 1780.
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