The Backward Trail Stories of the Indians And Tennessee Pioneers
The Backward Trail Stories of the Indians And Tennessee Pioneers
Will T Will Thomas Hale
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The warriors gave up the fight and fled. 9O THE BACKWARD TRAII, . The village which stood near the present town of Borne, Georgia was burned. Sevier wanted to carry the war further down to other Indian settlements, Lut it wa. S decided to return on account of the difficulties to be surmounted in reaching them. The Ktowah campaign was the last military service of Gen. Sevier . Although he had been the protection of the frontiers for nearly a score of years, fighting thirty-five battles and never... meeting defeat, and in all his engagements losing but fifty-six men, this expedi- tion was the only one for which he received compensa- tion from the government. Commenting on his man- ner of warfare, Eamsey says that Sevier was the first to introduce the Indian war-whoop in his battles with the savages, the tories, or the British. More harmless than the leaden missile, it was not less efficient, and was always the precursor and attendant of victory. The prisonei-s at King's Mountain said, ''We could stand your fighting, but your cursed hallooing confused us; we thought the mountains had regiments instead of companies.
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