Asbury Coward

Asbury Coward (September 19, 1835 - April 28, 1925) was a school leader, Confederate Army officer, South Carolina Superintendent of Education.

He and classmate Micah Jenkins established the King's Mountain Military School in Yorkville in 1855.

It reopened after the war but the boarding school struggled with the challenging times and closed.

[2] During the Civil War, Coward was commissioned as a colonel and served under General James Longstreet in Tennessee and Georgia.

[3] The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument honoring him at Kings Mountain National Military Park in Blacksburg.