When an attack was made on a camp, however, it was no uncommon thing to have the squaws killed while the fight was hot.

Blount, in one of his letters to Robertson, after the Cumberland militia had attacked and destroyed a Creek war party which had murdered a settler, expressed his pleasure at the perseverance with which the militia captain had followed the Indians to the banks of the Tennessee, where he had been lucky enough to overtake them in a position where not one was able to escape.

Blount especially complimented him upon having spared the two squaws, "as all civilized people should"; and he added that in so doing the captain's conduct offered a most agreeable contrast to the behavior of some of his fellow citizens under like circumstances.
[Footnote: Robertson MSS., Blount's letter, March 8, 1794.] Repeated Failures to Secure Peace.
Repeated efforts were made to secure peace with the Indians.

Andrew Pickens, of South Carolina, was sent to the exposed frontier in 1792 to act as peace Commissioner.

Pickens was a high-minded and honorable man, who never hesitated to condemn the frontiersmen when they wronged the Indians, and he was a champion of the latter wherever possible.