So steep were some of the slopes they scaled that the men were obliged to dismount and help their horses up.

Unexpectedly to themselves perhaps, as well as to the Indians, they descended one morning on a group of villages and destroyed them.

Before the fleeing savages could rally, the mountaineers had plunged up the steeps again.

Sevier then turned southward into Georgia and inflicted a severe castigation on the tribes along the Coosa River.
When, after thirty days of warfare and mad riding, Sevier arrived at his Bonnie Kate's door on the Nolichucky, he found a messenger from General Greene calling on him for immediate assistance to cut off Cornwallis from his expected retreat through North Carolina.

Again he set out, and with two hundred men crossed the mountains and made all speed to Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, where he learned that Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.