He speaks of Sevier's troops as only two hundred in number; and says twenty-eight Indians were killed.

He does not speak of the number of the Indians, but from the way he describes Sevier's troops as encircling them, he evidently knew that the white men were more numerous than their foes.

His mistake as to the number of Indian dead is easily explicable.
The official report gives twenty-nine as the number killed in the entire campaign, and Haywood, as in the Island Flats battle, simply puts the total of several skirmishes into one.
Thirty years later comes Ramsey.

He relies on traditions that have grown more circumstantial and less accurate.

He gives two accounts of what he calls "one of the best-fought battles in the border war of Tennessee"; one of these accounts is mainly true; the other entirely false; he does not try to reconcile them.