Sam & Elijah Moore, Captain Burnet of the Rebel Georgia Militia & one Damewood & Fox were perpetrators of this murder -[23] At this point, it appears that Captain Dunlap's story finally ended. There is little doubt that he was a courageous officer but opinions differ widely after that. From Cornwallis's point of view, Dunlap was spirited, gallant, and just what was needed for cavalry operations in the Ninety Six District. From the Patriot perspective, he was closer to an eighteenth century terrorist. Regardless of which description comes closer to the truth, nobody can doubt that James Dunlap was a hard man to kill. He survived being wounded on the road to King's Mountain. He survived being wounded at Beattie's Mill. But at Gilbert Town, the Overmountain Men refused to be denied. They came to his room not just once or twice but three times, each visit for the purpose of pumping in a little bit more lead to insure Dunlap's demise.

[1] Charles Cornwallis to Nesbit Balfour, November 4, 1780, in Ian Saberton, The Cornwallis Papers (East Sussex, Naval & Military Press, 2010), III:60. [2] John Graves Simcoe, Simcoe's Military Journal (New York, Bartlett & Welford, 1844), 52. [3] James Dunlap to Balfour, July 15, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, I:254. [4] Dunlap to Balfour, July 15, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, I:254. [5] Patrick Ferguson to Cornwallis, August 9, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:302. [6] Cornwallis to Balfour, September 13, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:82. [7] Balfour to Cornwallis, September 20, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:92. [8] Ferguson to Cornwallis, September 14, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:148. [9] Cornwallis to Balfour, September 22, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:88. In fact, there would never be a regiment raised by "Old Mills of Tryon Country" since he would soon be captured at King's Mountain and hung in the subsequent Tory trials. [10] Dunlap to Ferguson, September 30, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:160 [11] Ferguson to Cornwallis, September 30, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, II:161. [12] Lyman Draper, King's Mountain and its Heroes, (Cincinnati: P.