John Dooly
Colonel John Dooly (1740-1780), born in Wilkes County, Georgia, was an American Revolutionary war hero. He commanded a regiment at the Battle of Kettle Creek in 1779 and was killed by Tories at his home in 1780.The family of John Dooly lived in the backwoods of the American frontier. After the British captured Augusta, soldiers took to the woods and went against the British with surprise attacks, Indian-style. His story is one of folk-lore. Some say the plot to kill him occurred a week or more before it happened; others say that he was murdered.