A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . gedthat if they surrendered, their livesshould be spared, and they should beexchanged for a like number of In-dian prisoners. These terms were ac-cepted and the little garrison sur-rendered. As soon as they left the blockhouse,Doublehead and his party fell uponthem and put them all to death inthe most barbarous manner, exceptAlexander Cavett, Jr., who was savedby the interposition of Col. Watts,though he was afterwards killed inthe Creek towns .
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . gedthat if they surrendered, their livesshould be spared, and they should beexchanged for a like number of In-dian prisoners. These terms were ac-cepted and the little garrison sur-rendered. As soon as they left the blockhouse,Doublehead and his party fell uponthem and put them all to death inthe most barbarous manner, exceptAlexander Cavett, Jr., who was savedby the interposition of Col. Watts,though he was afterwards killed inthe Creek towns . . Gen. Sevier being reinforced untilhis army numbered about 700, hemarched rapidly southward until , 1793, when he reached the belovedtown of Estaunaula. The town wasdeserted, but since it contained abund-ant provisions, Sevier halted and rest-ed his men. The Indians undertookto disperse his camp at night, but theattack was unsuccessful. From someCherokee prisoners taken at Estau-naula it was learned that the mainbody of the enemy, composed of Cher-okees and Creeks, had passed the placea few days previously, and were mak- ^-:^^^ <^^. Wj GEN. JOHN SEVIER, early governor of Ten-nessee, who in 1793 routed a band of Indianson Romes site and slew Chief Kingfisher. 24 A History of Rome and Floyd County ing for a town at the mouth of theEtowah river. After refreshijig histroops, Gen. Sevier followed the enemy,reaching the confluence of the Etowahand the Oostanaula rivers on the eve-ning of the 17th. The Creeks and a number of Cher-okees had intrenched themselves onopposite banks of the Etowah, to ob-struct its passage. A happy mistakeon the part of the guides, Carey andPindleston% saved the day for thewhites. They carried Col. Kellysforce half a mile below the ford,where he and a few others immediate-ly swam the river. The Indians, dis-covering this movement, abandonedtheir intrenchments and rushed downthe river to oppose Col. Kelly. , discovering the error, wheel-e
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