Joseph SEVIER, son of Col. John SEVIER, at the Battle of King's Mountain,
had heard that his father had been killed in the action, "a false report,
originatting, probably, from the fact of the Colonel's brother, Captain
Robert SEVIER, having been fatally wounded; and the young soldier kept up
firing upon the huddled Tories, until admonished to cease, when he
excitedly cried out, with the tears chasing each other down his
cheeks—"The d—d rascals have killed my father, and I'll keep loading and
shooting till I kill every son of a b—h of them." Colonel SEVIER now
riding up, his son discovered the mistake under which he had labored, and
desisted." (Statement of Colonel George W. Sevier).
(Excerpted from King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of
King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It by
Lyman C. Draper, Cincinnati, 1881, p. 282)

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