[Footnote: Robertson MSS., Smith to Robertson, June 19, 1793, etc.; _Knoxville Gazette_, June 15 and July 13, 1793, etc.] The Indians clamored for justice and the surrender of the militia who had attacked them.

Blount warmly sympathized with them, but when he summoned a court-martial to try Beard it promptly acquitted him, and the general frontier feeling was strongly in his favor.

Other militia commanders followed his example.

Again and again they trailed the war parties, laden with scalps and plunder, and attacked the towns to which they went; killing the warriors and capturing squaws and children.

[Footnote: _Knoxville Gazette_, July 13, July 27, 1793, etc., etc.] Revengeful Forays.
The following January another party of red marauders was tracked by a band of riflemen to Scolacutta's camp.