The annals are filled with name after name of men who were killed by the Indians.

The dates, and even the names, may be misplaced in many of these instances; but this is really a matter of no consequence, for their only interest is to show the nature of the harassing Indian warfare, and the kind of adventure then common.] Attack on Nashborough.
On the 2d day of April another effort was made by a formidable war party to get possession of one of the two remaining stations--Freeland's and Nashborough--and thus, at a stroke, drive the whites from the Cumberland district.

This time Nashborough was the point aimed at.
A large body [Footnote: How large it is impossible to say.

One or two recent accounts make wild guesses, calling it 1,000; but this is sheer nonsense; it is more likely to have been 100.] of Cherokees approached the fort in the night, lying hid in the bushes, divided into two parties.

In the morning three of them came near, fired at the fort, and ran off towards where the smaller party lay ambushed, in a thicket through which ran a little "branch." Instantly twenty men mounted their horses and galloped after the decoys.