Today in Chickamauga History - August 5

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February 9, 2025
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Today in Chickamauga History - August 5

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1787, August 5: Page 394-395 - THE ANNALS OF TENNESSEE TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY - Sumner Country August 5th 1787

Dear Sir: - When I had last the pleasure of seeing your Excellency, I think you was kind enough to propose, that in case the perdifious Chickamauga should infest this country, to notify your Excellency, and you would send a campaign against them without delay.  The period has arrived that they, as I have good reason to believe, in combination with the Creeks, have done this country very great spoil by murdering numbers of our peaceful inhabitants, stealing our horses, killing our cattle and hogs, and burning our buildings through wantonness, cutting down our corn, etc.

I am well assured that the distress of the Chickamauga tribe is the only way this defenseless country will have quiet. The militia being very few, and the whole, as it were, a frontier, its inhabitants all shut up in stations, and they, in general, so weakly manned, that in case of an invasion, one is scarcely able to aid another, and the enemy daily in our country committing ravages of one kind or other, and that of the most savage kind. Poor Major Hall and his eldest son, fell a sacrifice to their savage cruelty two days ago, near Bledsoe's Lick. They have killed about twenty -four persons in this country in a few months, besides numbers of others in settlements near it. Our dependence is much that your Excellency will revenge the blood thus wantonly shed - https://archive.org/details/annalstennessee00ramsgoog

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1788, August 5:  Destruction of Cherokee towns by Servier, from State of Franklin [North Carolina] - A party from North Carolina, called Franklin State, with Sevier at the head, came over and destroyed several of their towns, killing nearly 30 Indians. Overhills seem determined for war. Winn wishes to bring the Cherokee situation before Congress. - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/39466

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1838, August 5:  WHITELY’s party arrives at the Cherokee Nation West (Chickamauga) with only 602 persons remaining; 143 have escaped from the party but the rest of those missing have died.

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