In  Col.  Sevier's  letter  to  me  of  the  17th  of  January,  1810,  he  says,  "  It
is  true  that  Col.  Campbell  was  not  within  one-quarter  of  a  mile  when
the  enemy  surrendered  to  yourself  and  me."  In  another  letter  of  the
27th  of  August,  1812,  when  speaking  of  the  battle  of  King's  Mountain,
he  says,  "It  is  well  known  you  were  in  the  heat  of  the  action.  I
frequently  saw  you  animating  your  men  to  victory;  at  the  surrender,  you
were  the  first  field  officer  I  recollect  to  have  seen.  I  have  no  doubt  you
must  recollect  Col.  Campbell  was  some  considerable  distance  from  that
place,  at  that  time,  and  that  you  and  myself  spoke  on  that  subject  the
same  evening.  I  perfectly  recollect  on  my  seeing  you  at  the  close  of
the  action,  that  I  swore  by  G-d  they  had  burnt  off  your  hair,  for  it  was
much  burnt  on  one  side.  It  is  well  known  by  some  hundreds  in
Tennessee,  that  you  were  Colonel  on  that  campaign,  and  that  we  were
the  only  persons  who  set  on  foot  the  expedition,  and  had  considerable
trouble  to  get  Campbell  to  join  us."

Gen.  Kennedy  (who  belonged  on  that  day  to  Sevier's  column)  states
that  he  was  a  Captain  in  the  batde  of  King's  Mountain,  and  fought  on
the  eastwardly  quarter  of  it,  where  Campbell's  regiment  was  also  en-
gaged— that  he  saw  me  frequently,  but  does  "  not  recollect  to  have  seen
Col.  Campbell  during  the  action,"  &c.  In  his  statement  he  further
says,  "I  was  within  sixty  or  seventy  yards  of  the  enemy  when  they
raised  the  flag,  and  was  close  in  with  them  in  a  minute  or  two  afterwards,
and  I  well  recollect  to  have  seen  Col.  Shelby  there  one  of  the  first  men
I  met  with.  I  remember  to  have  heard  several  persons  inquire  for  Col.
