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Major James Dunlap: Was He Murdered Twice?

Adelberg, Michael S. “Major James Dunlap: Was He Murdered Twice?” Journal of the American Revolution, January 11, 2016. 334 words

[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. G. Thompson, 1881), 160-161. [13] Cornwallis to Balfour, November 4, 1780, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, III:60. [14] Balfour to Cornwallis, January 7, 1781, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, III:131. [15] Cornwallis to John Harris Cruger, January 13, 1781, in Saberton, Cornwallis Papers, III:292. [16] Hugh McCall, The History of Georgia, (Savannah: Seymour & Williams, 1816), II:352. [17] McCall, History of Georgia, 361. [18] Pension Application of Thomas Leslie, File Number W381, http://www.revwarapps.org/w381.pdf. [19] McCall, History of Georgia, 361. [20] Pension Application of Joshua Barnett, File Number S32154, http://www.revwarapps.org/s32154.pdg. [21] Andrew Pickens to Nathaniel Greene, April 8, 1781, in The Papers of General Nathaniel Greene, Vol. 8, Dennis M. Conrad, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 71. [22] Greene to Pickens, April 15, 1781, in Papers of General Nathaniel Greene, 98. [23] Daniel Cozens, March 28, 1781, deposition for Sir Henry Clinton, reprinted at http://www.overmountainvictory.org/Gtown.htm.