“The applicant says that he marched his company in the fall of the year 1776 to the Cherokee nation by order of Major or General Williamson who commanded the expedition in person and to the number of about two thousand men, who were met and opposed by a superior force of Indians, Williamson entered a narrow valley surrounded by mountains, the larger portion of the Indians occupied the mountain heights from which they poured in a constant and well directed fire, orders were given for Detachments of Williamson’s Army to gain the heights above the Indians whom being hard pressed by the advances in the valley & those on the mountain sides, betook themselves to flight, Williamson’s Army then laid waste to all the Cherokee settlements in that section and the Army disbanded sometime in October.