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ARCHIBALD DIXON, who was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, April 2, 1802, was one of the distinguished figures in the whig party of Kentucky, and one of the really eminent Kentuckians of the past. His grandfather was Col. Henry Dixon, a most gallant Revolutionary officer, who at the battle of Camden distinguished himself by holding the field the entire day against the British Army with his regiment of North Carolina militia in conjunction with the Maryland troops. For his action in that battle the highest tributes were paid him by Light-Horse Harry Lee in his "Southern Memoirs," Chief Justice Marshall in his "Life of Washington," Judge David Schenck in his history "North Carolina, 1780-8!," and Lamb, the British historian.
He died at the Red House in Caswell County, North Carolina, in 1782 of wounds received in the Revolutionary war.
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