See Draper's King's "Mountain and its Heroes," pp.
52-54.
Ferguson had his code towards the foe's women also.

On one occasion when he was assisting in an action carried out by Hessians and Dragoons, he learned that some American women had been shamefully maltreated.

He went in a white fury to the colonel in command, and demanded that the men who had so disgraced their uniforms instantly be put to death.
In rallying the loyalists of the Back Country of Georgia and the Carolinas, Ferguson was very successful.

He was presently in command of a thousand or more men, including small detachments of loyalists from New York and New Jersey, under American-born officers such as De Peyster and Allaire.

There were good honest men among the loyalists and there were also rough and vicious men out for spoils--which was true as well of the Whigs or Patriots from the same counties.