chickamaugans

Updated: May 18, 2025

The Chickamaugans embraced the more vicious and bloodthirsty Cherokees, with a mixture of Creeks and bad whites, who, driven from every law-abiding community, had cast in their lot with this tribe.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

Of the three men who deserted, while the women stood by under fire, the negro was drowned and Jennings's son and the other young man were captured by the Chickamaugans. The latter was burned at the stake.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

Past the camps of the Chickamaugans who were retreating farther and farther down the twisting flood, seeking a last standing ground in the giant caves by the Tennessee these white voyagers had steered their pirogues.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground