Statewide County NcArchives News.....Mr. Henry - A Living NC Rev. Soldier 1859
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Raleigh Standard 1859
The Raleigh Standard, 14 Sept. 1859
A LIVING N. C. REV. SOLDIER -- A Correspondent of the "Charleston Mercury" 
writing from Deaver's Springs, N. C. says:
   "We have here an old Revolutionary soldier, a survivor of the battle of 
King's Mountain -- MR. HENRY. He is nearly 95 years old, and still reads 
without spectacles; he was a mere boy at the time of the battle, but stood his 
ground when Ferguson's troops charged with the bayonet, and in consequence had 
a thrust through the hand and into the thigh. His rifle, which he had just 
loaded, was discharged at the moment he received the thrust -- this killed his 
antagonist, and after the British had retired up the mountain, MR. HENRY was 
found lying by a log with the musket hanging by its bayonet to his thigh. He 
afterwards became a distinguished criminal lawyer, and is said to have 
defended more desperate criminal cases than any other man in the State. He has 
in manuscript an account of the battle, prepared by himself with the aid of   
VANCE, another of the participators in that battle. He says that SUMTER'S 
originial name was not the "GAME COCK" but "TUCK." that he was so called by 
one GILMORE, who owned a blue hen famous for her game chickens. That a 
celebrated fighter named "TUCK" was one of this blue hen's chickens, and in 
compliment to SUMTER'S pluck, GILMORE gave him the cognomen , "TUCK", which 
afterward changed into the "GAME COCK". There are many other interesting 
matters in his manuscript; but for the present, I defer them."

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