In retaliation Sevier
raised a large party and marching against a town on Hiwassee river —
one of those which had been destroyed some years before and rebuilt —
and burned it. killing a number of the inhabitants in the river while
they were trying to escape. lie then turned, and proceeding to the
towns on Little Tennessee burned several of them also, killing a num-
ber of Indians. Here a small party of Indians, including Abraham
and Tassel, two well-known friendly chiefs, was brutally massacred
by one of the Kirks, no one interfering, after they had voluntarily
come in on request of one of the officers. This occurred during the
temporary absence of Sevier. Another expedition under Captain
Favne was drawn into an ambuscade at Citico town and lost several
in killed and wounded. The Indians pursued the survivorsalmost to
Knoxville, attacking a small station near the present Maryville by
the way. They were driven off by Sevier and others, who in turn
invaded the Indian settlements, crossing the mountains and penetra-
ting as far as the valley towns on Hiwassee. hastily retiring as they
found the Indians gathering in their front. 2 In the same summer
another expedition was organized against the Chickamauga towns.
The chief command was given to General Martin, who left White's
fort, now Knoxville. with four hundred and fifty men and made a
rapid inarch to the neighborhood of the present Chattanooga, where
the main force encamped on the site of an old Indian settlement. A
detachment sent ahead to surprise a town a few miles farther down
the river was fired upon and driven back, and a general engagement
took place in the