Find out more about the fascinating people who show up at multiple locations on this website:

• Biddle, Charles—Merchant captain and militia officer
• Burke, Thomas—Governor who reformed the militia, kidnapped by Loyalists
• Campbell, William—Commander of the Overmountain Men
• Caswell, Richard—First state governor and Patriot commander at Moore’s Creek Bridge
• Clinton, Henry—Commander-in-chief of British forces after 1778
• Cornwallis, Charles—Commander of the British army that invaded N.C.
• Craig, James—Led the British occupation of Wilmington
• Davie, William—Militia colonel, Father of the University of North Carolina
• Dragging Canoe—Defender of Cherokee traditions and lands
• Dunlap, James—Captain with Ferguson, murdered at Gilbert Town
• Fanning, David—Notorious leader of Loyalist militia
• Ferguson, Patrick—British commander who angered the Overmountain Men
• Gates, Horatio—Continental army commander, disgraced at Camden, S.C.
• Graham, Joseph—Patriot militia officer in many N.C. engagements
• Greene, Nathanael—Continental army commander during Guilford Campaign
• Harnett, Cornelius—Political leader, Council of Safety president
• Howe, Robert—N.C.’s only major general
• Lafayette, Marquis de—Major general under George Washington
• Lee, Henry—Cavalry commander in the Continental Army
• Lenoir, William—Militia officer and Cherokee Campaign diarist
• Locke, Francis—Patriot militia commander at Ramsour’s Mill
• MacDonald, Donald—British commander who tried to prevent Moore’s Creek failure
• Martin, Josiah—Last royal governor
• McDowell, Charles—Burke County militia commander
• McDowell, Joseph—Burke County militia officer
• Morgan, Daniel—Continental army general during the Race to the Dan