SOO  KING'S  MOUNTAIN

accounts,  he  states  that  the  British  lost  on  the  field  and
in  prisoners,  as  follows  :  Of  the  Provincial  corps,  Colonel
Ferguson,  Lieutenant  McGinnis  and  eighteen  privates,
total,  twenty  killed  ;  Captain  Ryerson  and  thirty-two  Ser-
geants and  privates,  total,  thirty-three  wounded — making  the
killed  and  wounded  together,  fifty-three ;  two  Captains,
four  Lieutenants,  three  Ensigns,  one  Surgeon,  and  fifty-four
Sergeants  and  privates,  including  the  wounded,  making  a
total  of  sixty-four  prisoners — showing,  according  to  this
account,  only  thirty-one  of  Ferguson's  corps  who  escaped
being  killed  or  wounded.  This,  however,  is  a  manifest
error,  for  the  fiftj^-three  killed  and  wounded,  and  thirty-one
uninjured  men  would  add  up  only  eighty-four,  whereas.
Lieutenant  Allaire  concedes  that  there  were,  at  the  com-
mencement of  the  battle,  one  hundred  of  Ferguson's  corps.
In  this  estimate  of  prisoners,  he  did  not  probably  include
the  survivors  of  Lieutenant  Taylor's  twenty  dragoons,  and
ten  wagoners,  taken  from  the  Rangers — more  than  enough
to  make  up  the  full  complement  assigned  to  the  Provin-
cials by  that  officer.  He  also  states,  that  the  Loyalists
lost  "in  officers  and  privates,  one  hundred  killed,  ninety
wounded,  and  about  six  hundred  prisoners."  Reckoning
the  prisoners  at  six  hundred  and  ten,  and  the  killed  and
wounded  as  Allaire  reports  them,  would  make  up  the  full
amount  of  the  supposable  Tory  force — eight  hundred.
