Major Lewis Redmond’s story sounds like it comes from a 19th century dime novel. He was a Carolina moonshiner, an outlaw and, thanks to actually being in some of those dime novels after the Civil War, a folk hero.
His killing of a U. S. Marshal led to a life on the run across North and South Carolina, making Redmond a legend. Today we tell his story.
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I live in Transylvania county heard this my whole life and family lore has it he lived on sassafras mtn for a while next to my great uncle x2 and he borrowed a shotgun from him at one point went and killed some marshals that came and then brought the gun back because he was ambushed