that after a short rest each army
returned home along the route by which it had come.
The South Carolina men had centered by different detachments in
'See no. 110, "Incidents of Personal Heroism." For Rutherford's expedition, see Moore, Rutherford's
Expedition, in North Carolina University Magazine, February, 1888; Swain, Sketch of the Indian War
in 1776, ibid., May, 1852, reprinted in Historical Magazine, November, 1867; Ramsey, Tennessee, p. 164,
1853; Roosevelt, Winning of the West, I, pp. 294-302, 1889, etc.
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the lower Cherokee town- about the head of Savannah river, burning
one town after another, cutting down the peach trees and ripened
corn, and having an occasional brush with the Cherokee, who hung con-
stantly 141011 their flanks. At the town of Seneca, near which they
encountered ( 'aineron witti hisIndian- and Tories, they had destroyed
six thousand bushels of corn, besides other food stores, after burning all
the houses, the Indians having retreated after a -tout resistance. The
most serious encounter had taken place at Tomassee, where several
whites and sixteen ( 'hcrokec wen- killed, the latter being all scalped
afterward. Having completed the ruin of the Lower town-. Wil-
liamson had cros-ed over Rabun gap and descended into the valley of the
Little Tennessee to cooperate with Rutherford in the destruction of the
Middleand Valley town-. As the army advanced every house in every
settlement met was burned ninety houses in one settlement alone and
detachments were sent into the fields to destroy the corn, of which the
smallest town was estimated to have two hundred acre-, besides pota-
toes, beans, and orchards of peach trees. The store-