Captured at Kings Mountain: The Journal of Uzal Johnson a Loyalist Surgeon

About this book

In the midst of the American Revolution New Jersey native and surgeon Dr. Uzal Johnson traveled to South Carolina with the American Volunteers a Loyalist unit under the command of the British colonel Patrick Ferguson. Johnsons wartime journal recounts the movements of Fergusons Corps and its survivors through the rebellious Carolina colonies from March 1780 to March 1781 and gives a participants account of the American victory at Kings Mountain an event that gave hope to the Whigs and greatly dispirited the Loyalists. In this definitive edition of Johnsons journal Wade S. Kolb III and Robert M. Weir add a wealth of historical context to the people places and events of Johnsons adventure and his Loyalist perspective on the Battle of Kings Mountain.