arriving at Nashville entered as heartily into the project
as if no counter orders had ever been issued, and was given chief com-
mand of the expedition, which for this reason is commonly known as
■•( he's expedition."
< )n September 7. L794, the army of five hundred and fifty mounted
men left Nashville, and five days later crossed the Tennessee near the
mouth of the Sequatchee river, their guide being the same Joseph
Brown of whom the old Indian woman had said that he would one day
bring the soldiers to destroy them. Having left their horses on the
other side of the river, they moved up along the south hank just after
daybreak of the L3th and surprised the town of Nickajack, killing
several warriors and taking a Dumber of prisoners. Some who
attempted to escape in canoeswere shot in the water. The warriors
-.1, Civil 1 Political Historj oi Tennessee, pp 809-311, 1828; Ramsey, rennessee, pp. 594,
-IImvu l,op.cit.,pp 314-316; Ramsey, op. eit., p, 06.
mooney] END OB 1 CHEROKEE WAR J 79-1 79
iii Running Water town, four miles above, heard the firing and came
at once to the assistance of their friends, but wen 1 driven back after
attempting to hold their ground, and the second town shared the fate
of the first. More than fifty Indians had been killed, a number were
prisoners, both towns and all their contents had been destroyed, with
a loss to the assailants of only three men wounded. The Breath, the
chief of Running Water, was among those killed. Two fresh scalps
with a large quantity of plunder from the settlements were found in
the towns, together with