Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-15
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK !


The battle of the EutaW, and the sur
render OF Lord CORVALLIS, covered the
tories with dsmay and confusion,
mixed with desperation, A great mum
Der Of them took shelter among the
Cherokees, and continued to threaten
the neighboring countries with devas-
tation. Gen. Pickens requested of Col.
Sewer to make the Indians drive them
out OF the country; many and great
were the miseries of these times, and
amongst the rest, the practice of plum
dering both by wings and tories, had
grown to an alarming excess, and had
reduced both Georgia and South Caro-
lima to the most afflictipg poverty. The
wings, as they got possession of any
valuable property, retired from the
army to take care of it. Every soldier
began TO look for an opportunity to
plunder, and when the officers gave
countenance to the designs, insubordi-
nation Immediately took place, ana
discord ensued. They thought no
longer of defending the country ;plunder
being the object of the common men,
they thought it was also the object of
their officers when in the least counte-
nanced, and for want of confidence in
their euperiors, would no longer obey
them. Who are the virtuous few, said
Pickens, who will defend the country,
which Others are robbing of its riches,
and not caring when the war will end?
Examples, he insisted, ust be made
to pre-, ent this practice, or the country
will conquer itself. The object of those
who are in arms, said he, is property :;
they regard neither whig nor tory. A
vast number of negroes and property
were taken from South Carolina and
Georgia, and carried away; and a great
number of free persons of color were
seized and hurried from their acquaint-
ances and friends, into remote coun-
tries, where their color condemned
them to slavery, and where they had
no means to procure the evidence which
proved their freedom. But to the honor
of the troops under Sewer and Shelby,
no such captives or property came
with them into the countries of their
residence; their integrity was as little
impeached as their valor.
The Assembly of North Carolina, in
June. 1881, considering the great pres
sure of the times, the difficulties which
had arisen from the defeat of the
American army under the command
of Gen. Gates, in August, 1850, at Cam
den; as likewise from the consequent
irruption of the British forces into
North Carolina; considering also, the
general insurrection of the tories, and
the numerous devastations they were
everywhere committing, together with
the astonishing depreciation of the
paper money occasioned by these events
deemed it expedient to close the land
office, and they did. 1t was not opened
again till after the war was terminated.
Not moment of relaxation was now
left from the tolls and dangers of war;
its ravages were carried to every plan
tation and family in all parts of Geor-
gia and South Carolina, and in many
parts of North Carolina; the horrors of
war were exhibited in every shape
which it can put on. This state of
things continued without any material
alteration through the whole of the
year 1889. The Indians retained their
deep rooted animosities, and in Sep
tember of this year, were hurried by a
reyengeful spirit to the frontiers. The
Chiccamauga Indians, and those of the
lower Cherokee towns, went thither
with some of the Creeks, killed come of
the settlers and took away their horses.
Col. Sewer Immediately summoned to
his standard hundred men from the
county of Washington, and was Joined
by Col. Anderson with seventy or
seventy five from Sullivan; all of
whom rendesvoused at the Big Island
on French Broad river, and from
thence marched to the upper towns of
the Cherokees, who were at peace.
There they procured John Watts, " no
afterwards became celebrated chief
of the Cherokee nation, to conduct
them to Chiccamauga, and from thence
to Willstown and to Turkey town:
thence to Bulltown and Vann nstown: !:
thence by the Hiwasse to Chestoe. In
this expedition they killed some of the
Indians, and as usual, burnt their
towns. They returned home by the
way of the Big Island in the French
Broad river. The officers in this ex-
pedition who were of grades inferior to
that Of Col. Sewer, were Jon athan Tip.
ton and James Hubbard; the Captains
were McGreen and Others. They camp
ed the first day on Ellijoy; on the Sec
ond they crossed Little river, and en-
camped on Nine Mile creek; on the
third they crossed Tennessee at Citico,
and there held council with the
friendly Indians, at which was present
the Hanging Nav; they engaged to be
at peace. On the fifth day they crossed
Tellico. on the Hiwassee trace; on the
sixth they encamped on the Hiwassee
river, above the former agency; on the
seventh they crossed the Hiwassee,
and encamped in an Indian town, on
the opposite bank; thence to Bulltown,
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