Revolutionary incidents: and sketches of character, chiefly in the "Old North state".

PART I. Page

The Tory Array— Origin of the Terms Whig and Tory 13

Causes of Toryism in North Carolina 15

Regulators — their Origin and History 17

Efforts of Governor Martin and others to engage as many as

possible in the service of the King 50

Rendezvous and Organization of the Tory Army 62

Correspondence between General McDonald, the Scotch Commander, and General Moore, the American Commander 77

Attempt of McDonald to reach Wilmington 82

Battle of Moore's Creek. .A 82

Who had the Command of the Patriots 112

Character of the Commanding OfiSccrs 120

PART II. Whig and Tory Officers — Colonel David Fanning — His Early

Life 139

His first Efforts in the Royal Cause 157

Capture of the Court in Pittsboro', and his Commission as

Colonel by Major Craig 161

Battle at McFall's Mill , 171

Capture of Colonel Philip Alston 180

Capture of Campbellton, now Fayetteville 191

Capture of Governor Burke 195

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Pursued by General Cutler 225

Miscellaneous Deeds of Atrocity 233

Capture of James Harding 237

Excursion up Deep River 243

Capture of Andrew Hunter 273

Leaves tlae United States for the British Possessions 282

Subsequent History 284

Colonel Andrew Balfour 298

The Mebanc Family 359

Colonel Wade and the Affair at the Piney Bottom 382

The Battle at Elizabethtown, and subsequent transactions.... 397

Frederick Goss 420

William Cummings, & Co 424

Lewis Bowell 428