the West, i, pp. 308-305, 1889;
Ramsey, Tennessee, pp. 165-170,1853.
;>'- MVTHs OF THE CHEBOKJEE [cth.anh.19
party of Indian-, was surrounded and entirely cut <>tl'. "Sixteen were
found dead in the valley when the battle ended. These our men
scalped." In a personal encounter "a stout Indian engaged a sturdy
young white man. who was a good bruiser and expert at gouging.
After breaking their guns on each other they laid hold of one another,
when the cracker had bis thumbs instantly in the fellow's eyes, who
roared and cried i ccmaly'' -enough, in English. •Damn you,' says
the white man. 'you can never have enough while you are alive.* He
then threw him down, set his foot upon his head, and scalped him
alive; then took up one of the broken guns and knocked out hi.- brains.
It would havebeen fun if he had let the latter action alone and sent
him home without his nightcap, to tell his countrymen how he had
been treated." Later on some of the same detachment (Williamson's)
seeing a woman ahead, fired on her and brought her down with two
serious wounds, hut yet able to speak. After getting what informa-
tion she could give them, through a half-breed interpreter, ■"the
informer being unable to travel, 8 ! of our men favored her so far
that they killed her there, to put her out of pain." A few days later
••a party of Colonel Thomas's regiment, being on a hunt of plunder.
or Mime such thing, found an Indian squaw and took herprisoner, -he
being lame, was unable to go with her friends. She was so sullen
that -he would, as an