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
- Nash, Francis—Commander of N.C. forces in the Continental Army
- O’Hara, Charles—Cornwallis’ second-in-command, hero in two British victories
- Pyle, John—Loyalist leader who escaped two disastrous defeats
- Rutherford, Griffith—Leader of the 1776 campaign against the Cherokees
- Sevier, John—Washington District militia commander and Overmountain leader
- Shelby, Isaac—Brokered change of command of the Overmountain Men
- Tarleton, Banastre—Infamous British cavalry commander
- Tryon, William—Royal governor who defeated the Regulators
- Wade, Thomas—Patriot leader in Tory War battles
- Washington, George—Commander of all Continental forces
- Washington, William—Continental cavalry regiment commander
- Williams, Otho—Commander of the Continental Army light corps
- Winston, Joseph—Patriot who served in every major action in N.C.
A few others have biographies at locations related to them:
- Balfour, Andrew—Patriot militia colonel
- Cleveland, Benjamin—Patriot militia leader with a penchant for hanging Tories
- Davidson, William—Continental and militia commander killed at Cowan’s Ford
- Husband, Herman—Voice of the Regulators
- Lillington, Alexander—Patriot commander in Cape Fear battles
- Macdonald, Flora—Scottish heroine turned supporter of the Loyalist cause
