Stock was stolen, cabins were burned, and settlers murdered.

The stark riflemen gathered for revenge, carrying their long rifles and riding their rough mountain horses.
Counter-inroads were carried into the Indian country.

On one, when Sevier himself led, two or three of the Indian towns were burned and a score or so of warriors killed.

As always, it proved comparatively easy to deal a damaging blow to these southern Indians, who dwelt in well-built log-towns; while the widely scattered, shifting, wigwam-villages of the forest-nomads of the north rarely offered a tangible mark at which to strike.

Of course, the retaliatory blows of the whites, like the strokes of the Indians, fell as often on the innocent as on the guilty.