Recently, I attended the annual reenactment of the Overmountain Men militia ... 25 of 1780 preceded the Oct. 7 Battle of Kings Mountain, a very pivotal victory in the American Revolution, when ...

The Overmountain Men were American frontiersmen from west of the Appalachian ... The decision provided Patriot forces with some of the best riflemen during the Battle of Kings Mountain, which was a ...

The Overmountain Men consisted mostly frontiersmen armed with long rifles, battle experienced by fighting Native Americans. But up on the rocky forested Kings Mountain waited loyalists to the British ...

William Campbell on Sept. 25, 1780, to join forces with other Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals who marched together to the Battle of Kings Mountain on Oct. 7, 1780. The historical re-enactors ...

After a two-week campaign, the Overmountain Men fought the Battle of Kings Mountain with overwhelming success. Richardson said he was proud to recognize the two Revolutionary War veterans and ...

The famed Overmountain Men crossed the Holston River in Bluff City, Tennessee in the fall of 1780. They marched on to fight the British at Kings Mountain in South Carolina, which was a turning ...

Kentucky painter Richard Luce has joined re-enactors on the Overmountain Victory Trail as they recreate the 1780 march that led to the Battle of Kings Mountain. A militia of mountain frontiersmen ...

but the biggest event of the year always comes in the month of September during the annual reenactment of the Gathering of the Overmountain Men during the climax of the American Revolutionary War.

"The story of the Overmountain Men is the definition of what this ... because 11 ancestors on both sides of his family fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain. One of them, Reece Bowen, was among ...

(WJHL) – Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park concluded a weekend-long Overmountain ... the more than 400 men who embarked on the trail from Abingdon, Virginia to Kings Mountain, South Carolina.

The Overmountain Men were American frontiersmen from ... Patriot forces with some of the best riflemen during the Battle of Kings Mountain, which was a turning point of the campaign.