The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-05

of the stories of their murderous
deeds have no parallel in Indian
warfare. Women and children were
slain in the presence of husbands
and fathers, children were carried
away to the Indian villages and
either burned at the stake or held
in the most brutal captivity.
Fate of the Brown Family.
The story of the melancholy fate.
of the family of Col William Brown
of North Carolina, a man who
fought under Light Horse Harry Lee
in the Revolutionary War, is more
or less familiar. Colonel Brown
came down the Tennessee in q
houseboat. having with him his en-
tire family. consisting of his wife
and seven children. Two of his sons
were grown. the other children were
small. On the boat were his SER
wants and his cattle with which he
intended to establish home in the
new world. The expedition was at
tackled in the most treacherous
manner by the Chickamauga Indians
at Running Water, near the present
site of great hydro-electric plant
constructed by Anthony N. Brady,
of New York. Col. Brown and his
wife, together with four young men
who had asked to be allowed to &C.
company them on the expedition.
were killed. The two grown sons
were also murdered. Joseph Brown,
boy of tender years, and two of
his small sisters, were taken into
captivity by the Indians and were
saved from death by an old Chero-
kee chief and his wife.
Joseph brown lived with these
indians until he reached manhood.
He worked his way out of the Indian
country, however, and finally guided
an expedition of white men to the
Nick A-Jack village in 1894, which
resulted in the total destruction of
of the ChickamauGas. This expedi-
ton was organized at Nashville un-
der the direction of John Robertson.
and commanded by Maj. Ore
Brown found his sisters and one
brother among the Indians, succeed
ed in rescuing them and the rem
nant of the family went to a point
near Columbia, Tenn, where Joseph
Brown became a beloved divine of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
The Chickamaugas claimed to- be
members of the Cherokee nation,
but they were in the main outcasts
from all Indian tribes. The section
around Chattanooga suffered more
from them than from all other
Indians. After the Chickamaugas
were wiped out by the white men at
Nick=A-Jack, the country around
Chattanooga enjoyed peace.
The Tennessee in Peace.
All along the Tennessee river to-
day where these conflicts between
the whites and the Indians occurred
in the latter half of 100, one sees
many evidences of industrial activi-
ty. The mountains are rich in min
eral wealth, such as coal iron, phos-
plate and building stone. This
wealth is heing developed by Chat
tanooga's captains of industry, the
raw material finding its way into
local shops and factories where it is
manufactured into merchantabie
products and sent all over the South,
and into foreign countries. The
water power, so dangerous to navl-
cation a hundred years ago. has
been harnessed and made to produce
electric current for manufacturing
plants and trolly lines. Obstruction
to navigation has been removed by
the national government, and the
Tennessee is now included in the
list Of rivers that are to be perma-
nently improved at public expense.
In scenic beauty, the Tennessee
river, as it flows through the gorges
of the Cumberlands at Chattanooga,
has few rivals and is the delight OF