In some of their bundles there were proclamations from Sir Henry Clinton and other British commanders.
The Indians were too surprised and panic-struck to offer any serious resistance, and not a man of Sevier's force was even wounded.

[Footnote: Campbell MSS.

Copy of the official report of Col.

Arthur Campbell, Jan.
15, 1781.

The accounts of this battle of Boyd's Creek illustrate well the growth of such an affair under the hands of writers who place confidence in all kinds of tradition, especially if they care more for picturesqueness than for accuracy.