Talk:Charles Gordon Jr (c1762-1799)

“Many a mortal combat and hand to hand rencontre, took place in this part of the line. Charles Gordon, apparently a young officer, made a quick, bold movement into the midst of the enemy, seizing a Tory officer by his cue, and commenced dragging him down the mountain, when the fellow suddenly drew and discharged his pistol, breaking Gordon's left arm; whereupon the latter, with his sword in hand, killed the officer outright. The whole affair was but the work of a moment and was regarded at the time as an intrepid act -- a prodigy of valor. *


 * MS. statements of Rev. Z. H. Gordon and Mrs. Sarah C. Law nephew and niece of the hero of this adventure. Charles Gordon was a native of the Fredericksburg region, in Virginia early settling in what subsequently became Wilkes County, North Carolina, where he filled public positions, and became a Major in the militia. He married a daughter of General Lenoir, dying near what is now Patterson, Caldwell County in that State, March 24, 1799 at the age of about thirty-seven years. Charles G McDowell of Shufordsville, N.C. and the lady of Hon. James C. Harper of Patterson, are his grand-children and Mrs. C.A. Cilley of Lenoir, N.C., is his great grand-daughter”

King's Mountain And Its Heroes: History Of The Battle Of King's Mountain, October 7, 1780, And The Events Which Led To It (1881) by Lyman Copeland Draper Page 261.

Plcoffey 20:02, June 28, 2010 (UTC)