Brigadier General William Campbell (c. 1745 – August 22, 1781) was an American military officer, farmer and politician.

[1] He became a colonel in 1780, and was noted for leading his militia to victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain, where he charged the enemy while telling his men to "shout like hell and fight like devils!"

Afterward, he worked in conjunction with Continental Army troops to oppose the British invasion of Virginia, providing support at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

[2] Following Campbell's 1781 death of an apparent heart attack, his widow subsequently married General William Russell.

It had been surveyed in 1748, when James Patton entered the area with an expedition of several men, including one Charles Campbell.