46. _Do.,_ 5th Series, I., 613. 47. _Do.,_ 5th Series, I., 7, and III., 649. The Georgia frontiersmen seem to have been peculiarly brutal in their conduct to the Creeks; but the latter were themselves very little, if at all, better. 48. McCall; five families captured, in three skirmishes eight whites were killed and six Indian scalps taken. 49. McCall; the Tennessee historians erroneously assign the command to Col. McBury. 50. "View of South Carolina," John Drayton, Charleston, 1802, p. 231. A very good book. 51. More exactly two hundred and twenty-two, on the 8th of July. 52. _E.g._, at Hogskin Creek and Barker's Creek. 53. Lyndley's Fort, on Rayborn Creek. 54. Eleven hundred and fifty-one, of whom one hundred and thirty were riflemen. He was camped at Twenty-three Mile Creek. 55. At Tomassee, where he put to flight a body of two or three hundred warriors, he lost eight killed and fifteen wounded, and at Tugelou, four wounded. Besides these two towns, he also destroyed Soconee, Keowee, Ostatay, Cherokee, Eustustie, Sugaw Town, and Brass Town. 56. All militia of course, with only the training they had received on the rare muster days; but a warlike set, utterly unlike ordinary militia, and for woodland work against savages in many respects much superior to European regulars. This campaign against the Cherokees was infinitely more successful than that waged in 1760 against the same foe by armies of grenadiers and highlanders. 57. That is, after the return of the South Carolinians from their destruction of the lower towns. 58. "Historical Sketches of North Carolina," John H. Wheeler, Phil., 1851, p. 383. 59. "Am. Archives," 5th Series, Vol. II., p. 1235. 60. Up Hominy Creek, across the Pigeon, up Richland Creek, across Tuckaseigee River, over Cowee Mount. 61. "Am. Archives," 5th Series, II., p. 1235. 62. _Do._ 63. Drayton. There was a good deal of jealousy between the two armies and their reports conflict on some points. 64. There is some conflict in the accounts of the destruction of the valley towns; after carefully comparing the accounts in the "American Archives," Drayton, White, Ramsey, etc., I believe that the above is substantially accurate. However it is impossible to reconcile all of the accounts of the relative order of Rutherford's and Williamson's marches. 65. Drayton; the "Am. Archives" say only twelve killed and twenty wounded. In another skirmish at Cheowee three South Carolinians were killed. 66. "Am. Archives," 5th Series, II., p. 1235. 67. _Do._ 68. _Do._, p. 990; Drayton puts the total Cherokee loss at two hundred. 69. _Do._, Vol III., p. 33. 70. These two events took place on September 26th and 29th; "Am. Archives," 5th Series, Vol. II., p. 540. Ramsey is thus wrong in saying no white was killed on this expedition. 71. McAfee MSS.; one of the McAfees went along and preserved a rough diary of dates. 72. "History of Virginia," John Burke (continued by L. H. Girardin), Petersburg, 1816, p. 176.