If he hadn’t died so young, William Campbell might have well been one of Virginia’s most famous figures. The Virginian played a critical role as a general in the Revolutionary War. Learn about Campbell and the Overmountain Men from a retiree turned history buff. Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee speaks Tom Vaughan, treasurer of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association in Bristol, Tennessee, in this episode.
See also Carolyn Wilson’s stories this month about Campbell and the Overmountain Men.
Our other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast with Essex County Museum Executive Director Tim Manley about his county’s re-enactment of the historic Essex Resolutions.
- Podcast with descendents of Black Virginians who moved to freedom in Nova Scotia after the war (and the Canadian museum dedicated to them).
- Podcast with award-winning historian Woody Holton about “the forgotten founders.”
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South about the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.
- South also talks about Clementina Rind, the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
