These Flint Hill bands numbered about four hundred men all told, under the leadership of various militia colonels--Hill, Lacey, Williams, Graham, and Hambright.

[Footnote: Hambright was a Pennsylvania German, the father of eighteen children.
Hill, who was suffering from a severe wound, was unfit to take an active part in the King's Mountain fight.

His MS.

narrative of the campaign is largely quoted by Draper.] Hill and Lacey were two of Sumter's lieutenants, and had under them some of his men; Williams, [Footnote: Bancroft gives Williams an altogether undeserved prominence.

As he had a commission as brigadier-general, some of the British thought he was in supreme command at King's Mountain; in a recent magazine article Gen.