29/116 Lenoir's account, prepared for Judge A.D. Murphy's intended history of North Carolina. Lenoir was a private in the battle.] Before leaving their camping-ground at the Sycamore Shoals they gathered in an open grove to hear a stern old Presbyterian preacher [Footnote: Rev.Samuel Doak. A tradition, but probably truthful, being based on the statements of Sevier and Shelby's soldiers in their old age. |