CHAPTER VI 



THE HOLSTON SETTLEMENTS TO THE END OF THE 

 REVOLUTION, 1781-83 



JOHN SEVIER had no sooner returned from 

 doing his share in defeating foes who were of 

 his own race, than he was called on to face another 

 set of enemies, quite as formidable and much more 

 cruel. These were the red warriors, the ancient 



their statements good nor was their act a very gracious one. 

 Shelby bore the chief part in the quarrel, Campbell's surviv- 

 ing relatives, of course, defending the dead chieftain. I 

 have carefully examined all the papers in the case, in the 

 Tenn. Historical Society, the Shelby MSS., and the Camp- 

 bell MSS., besides the files of the "Richmond Enquirer," 

 etc. ; and it is evident that the accusation was wholly 

 groundless. 



Shelby and Sevier rest their case : 



ist, on their memory thirty years after the event, of some 

 remarks of Campbell to them in private after the close of the 

 battle, which they construed as acknowledgments of bad con- 

 duct. Against these memories of old men it is safe to set 

 Shelby's explicit testimony, in a letter written six days after 

 the battle (see "Virginia Argus," Oct. 26, 1810), to the good- 

 conduct of the "gallant commander" (Campbell). 



2d, on the fact that Campbell was seen on a black horse in 

 the rear during the fighting; but a number of men of his 

 regiment swore that he had given his black horse to a ser- 

 vant who sat in the rear, while he himself rode a bay horse in 

 the battle. See their affidavits in the "Enquirer." 



3d, on the testimony of one of Shelby's brothers, who said 



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