[Footnote: Campbell MSS.

Letter of Gov.Thos.Jefferson, Feb.

17, 1781.] All the Holston settlements both north and south of the Virginia line joined in sending troops.

By the first week in December, 1780, seven hundred mounted riflemen were ready to march, under the joint leadership of Colonel Arthur Campbell and of Sevier, the former being the senior officer.

They were to meet at an appointed place on the French Broad.
Sevier started first, with between two and three hundred of his Watauga and Nolichucky followers.