More About the Story Behind Enemy of the King

Years ago as I was researching my early American Scots-Irish forebears I often came across references to a battle fought during the Revolution called King's Mountain. The name alone drew me. I vowed to go back later and research it more in depth and uncovered fascinating fodder for the imagination.

I learned about the gallant, ill-fated British Major Patrick Ferguson who lost his life and Loyalist army atop that Carolina Mountain called King's back in the fall of 1780. Ferguson is buried...