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On October 1st, Col. William Christian and his backwoods army crossed the Holston River in a march towards the Cherokee Overhill Towns. At Chimney Top Mountain the troops rested at "Six Mile Camp" where Capt. John Sevier and Capt. James Robertson joined them.

As the backwoodsmen pushed on towards the Tennessee River they found that the Cherokees had withdrawn into the mountains. They had left behind their horses, cattle, pigs, fifty thousand bushels of corn, and fifteen thousand bushels of potatoes.

Col. Christian wrote that the Indians "retreat faster than I could follow." He wrote to Patrick Henry, "I know, Sir, that I could kill and take Hundreds of them, and starve hundreds by destroying their Corn, but it would be mostly the women and children." Col. Christian did not want to make war against women and children and wrote "I shewed pity to the distressed and spared the supplicants, rather than that I should commit one act of Barbarity."

No matter what he wrote, his army destroyed all they found. After massive retaliations all along the frontier, the Cherokees finally had enough. On July 2, 1777 the defeated Cherokees ceded lands to Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia in the Treaty at Long Islands, Tennessee.

The Cherokees ceded the state of South Carolina the present-day counties of Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, and Greenville. The Cherokee chielf Atta-Kulla-Kulla tried to appease the conquerors by offering 500 warriors to fight against the British, but the offer was not accepted and left hard feelings on both sides.

The warriors under Dragging Canoe, along with some Creek Indians and some Loyalists, refused to honor the treaty and moved to Chickamauga Creek where they established a new settlement. Alexander Cameron went with Dragging Canoe and continued to supply him with arms and ammunition.

Washington County Regiment of Militia (VA/NC) led by Col. William Christian, Maj. Anthony Bledsoe, and Maj. Evan Shelby, Jr., with nineteen (19) known companies, led by:
- Capt. William Asher
- Capt. Abraham Bledsoe
- Capt. Isaac Bledsoe
- Capt. Robert Buchanan
- Capt. Gilbert Christian
- Capt. Boyle Cobb
- Capt. Andrew Colville
- Capt. William Edmondson
- Capt. William Hicks
- Capt. Aaron Lewis
- Capt. Marlow
- Capt. Joseph Martin
- Capt. Thomas Price
- Capt. James Robertson
- Capt. Elijah Robinson
- Capt. John Sevier
- Capt. Isaac Shelby
- Capt. James Shelby
- Capt. Jacob Womack

Surry County Regiment of Militia (NC) led by Col. Joseph Williams, and Maj. Joseph Winston, with eleven (11) known companies, led by:
- Capt. Obadiah Cobb
- Capt. William Dobson
- Capt. Joseph Dotson
- Capt. Richard Goode
- Capt. Adam Hampton (Tryon County Regiment)
- Capt. Jabez Jarvis
- Capt. Joseph Martin
- Capt. Charles McAnally
- Capt. Samuel Moseby
- Capt. WIlliam Shepherd
- Capt. Henry Smith

Cherokee Indians led by Dragging Canoe, Little Carpenter, Oconostota - unknown number of warriors

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