The uninjured prisoners and the wounded who were able to walk were marched off carrying their empty firearms.

The badly wounded were left lying where they had fallen.
At Bickerstaff's Old Fields in Rutherford County the frontiersmen halted; and here they selected thirty of their prisoners to be hanged.
They swung them aloft, by torchlight, three at a time, until nine had gone to their last account.

Then Sevier interposed; and, with Shelby's added authority, saved the other twenty-one.

Among those who thus weighted the gallows tree were some of the Tory brigands from Watauga; but not all the victims were of this character.

Some of the troops would have wreaked vengeance on the two Tories from Sevier's command who had betrayed their army plans to Ferguson; but Sevier claimed them as under his jurisdiction and refused consent.