[The Winning of the West, Volume Four by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Winning of the West, Volume Four CHAPTER III 47/98
Among the wounded were General Robertson and one of his sons, who were shot, although not fatally, in May, 1792, while working on their farm.
Both Creeks and Cherokees took part in the outrages, and the Chickamauga towns on the Tennessee, at Running Water, Nickajack, and in the neighborhood, ultimately supplied the most persistent wrongdoers.
[Footnote: American State Papers, IV., Blount to Secretary of War, Nov.
8, 1792; also page 330, etc.
Many of these facts will be found recited, not only in the correspondence of Blount, but in the Robertson MSS., in the _Knoxville Gazette_, and in Haywood, Ramsey, and Putman.] Effect of the Defeat of Harmar and St.Clair. Growth of the War Spirit. As Sevier remarked, the Southern, no less than the Northern Indians were much excited and encouraged by the defeat of St.Clair, coming as it did so close upon the defeat of Harmar.
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