This book is useful as a first-person account of the Battle at Rocky Mount, and for other details of the time/place. It is extremely biased, negatively, in anything related to Col. James Williams. In considering the Sumter-Williams enmity, it should not be taken seriously until one has read James Williams, An American Patriot in the Carolina Backcountry by William T. Graves, Writers Club Press, 2002. Regrettably, since Williams died at Kings Mountain, he never had the chance to tell his side of the story, and Hill's twisted account of Williams has been picked up by writers from Draper to Buchanon. |