Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-05-06
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE.
[CoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

Nashville, on the plantation where his
ather had been killed about six years
before. Robert prigance was killed by
,he Indians on public road near
Sumner court house; his horse was
also shot dead. In this month numer
ous large parties of Greeks had passed
The Tennessee on their way to Cumber-
land, and about the middle of the
month the ChIckasaws notified the
people of Cumberland that two hun
dred Creeks might shortly be expected
on their frontiers.
On the 9th of September, 1894,
woman, the property of Peter Turney
was taken off by the Indians near
Sumner court house.
1t had become manifest for some
time past that more effectual measures
must be resoried to for putting an end
to Indian massacres and devastations,
than those defensive ones which had
been so long relied on. and that re
course must be had to some striking
and decisive blow of retaliation for the
purpose Sampson Williams, Esquire,
sensible of the Indispensable necessity
for the immediate adoption of some
plan of reciprocating towards the In
dians the calamities they inflicted upon
the settlers, applied to Col. Whitley of
Lincoln County, Kentucky, and pre-
vailed on him to enter into the scheme.
1t was made known at what time he
would be ready to march and when
he would be in the Cumberland settle
ments, where it was expected he would
be joined and supported by a respect
able force to be raised there. Popu
lation had so far extended, notwith'
standing the discouraging circumstan
ces it had struggled with, that the
county of Sumner had been laid off in
1856 by North Carolina, and also the
county of Tennessee in 1888. The men
who were expected to carry on the ex-
pedition. were to be collected from the
different sections of country embraced
by the limits of those counties and the
county of Davidson. The raising of
them, therefore, could not be effected
with as much dispatch as If they were
all to be convened from one neighbor-
had; preparations were industriously
made to raise them with as much ce
lerity as circumstances would admit
of, and to collect munitions and other
necessaries for forwarding the contemr
plated expedition. Col. Ford between
Nashville and Clarksville, levied troops
in his part of the country to the
amount of Captains company, com
manded by Captain William Miles
who marched with his men to the ap
pointed rendezvous at the blockhoust
two miles east of Buchanon Gen
Robertson raised volunteers in his par
of the country in the neighborhood O.
Nashville. Col. Montgomery at CT rks
vile raised troops also, and marched
with them in person to the place o
rendezvous. Maj Ore from East Ten
nessee, arrived with body of mel
from East Tennessee by the orders o
Government for the protection of tn
frontiers of Nero district and cam
with them to Nashville, where hear
ing OF what was in agitation he con
cluded to contribute his assistance "a
the expedition was afterwards calle,
his, to give color to the claim of pa
for the troops and the provisions an,
other articles supplied from the gen
eral government, the men under hi
command having actually heen levie
by public authority. He marched hi
men to the place of rendezvous; Col
Whitley with his troops soon after
wards arrived. and by his junction tn
whole body consisted of five hundre
and fifty men. There it was agree
that Whitley should have the chic
command of the whole. The officer
of the troops raised IN tie territory
proceeded to elect a proper person
. command them and the choice fe
: upon Col. Montgomery. All prepari
tory matters being arranged and tn
. whole army being made ready. the
took up the line of march. On Sunda
: the 7th of September, they marched
T one day to Black Fox's camp and thel
= remained for the night, they the
; crossed the barren fork of Duck Riv,
e near the stone fort, where Erwin
" store now is; thence to Fennison
spring; thence to Tennessee River abol
three miles below the mouth of s
,. quatchie Creek, having crossed Il
. Cumberland Mountain near the pla
y where Csldwell's bridge now is,
8 which place they crossed Elk Rive
z On arriving at the Tennessee the troo
z halted in the night and crossed ear
y in the morning, some of them befo
day, some upon bundles of dry car
some upon chumps, and some witho
r any assistance, the river there bei
4 fully three quarters of mile vic
Z The whole body was landed on t
J sonth bank of the river on Thursd
next after they began their march
y the blockouse. AS soon as the troo
A could be collected and made rea
they marched up the mountain betwe
! the point of which and the river ste
get the Indian town of Nickajack.