But his earlier accounts, including the official report which he signed, explicitly contradict this.

The question is thus purely as to the time of the junction; as to whether it was after or before this that the body of nine hundred actual fighters was picked out.
Shelby's later report contains the grossest self-contradictions.

Thus it enumerates the companies which fought the battle in detail, the result running up several hundred more than the total he gives.

The early and official accounts are in every way more worthy of credence; but the point is settled beyond dispute by Hill's narrative.

Hill was one of the four hundred men with Williams, and he expressly states that after the junction at the Cowpens the force, from both commands, that started out numbered nine hundred and thirty-three.