Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: King's Mountain Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1756-1887

Call Number: Draper Mss DD

Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (19 volumes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers about the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, on October 7, 1780, in which some 1,400 frontier troops from Virginia and North Carolina trapped and routed 1,000 Loyalist soldiers and killed their commander, Patrick Ferguson. Besides his own notes and interviews, Draper gathered materials for over 40 years, and acquired the papers of several of the prominent officers, such as William Campbell, John Sevier, and Isaac Shelby.

Note:

Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts / by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present.

This collection is also available as a microfilm publication.

Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts / by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.

There is a restriction on use to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper0dd

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