The Cherokee and Southwest Tribes
The Cherokee Expedition of 1776
Prompted by the British, the Cherokee staged coordinated attacks on the Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina frontiers in the summer of 1776. Colonel William Christian resigned from command of the 1st Virginia Regiment to go home and lead Virginia's response.
"Cherokee Expedition of 1776 - 'Christie's Campaign'" (Carolana)
"North Carolina Colonel Joseph Williams in the Cherokee Campaign of 1776" (Travis Copeland, JAR)
"The Cherokee-American War from the Cherokee Perspective" (Jordan Baker, JAR)
"The Virginia-North Carolina Frontier in 1776" (A.G. Barnes, W&M)
"William Christian" (Gail S. Terry, Dictionary of Virginia Biography)
Veteran Accounts (Carolana)
"Cherokee Expedition of 1776 - 'Christie's Campaign'" (Carolana)
"North Carolina Colonel Joseph Williams in the Cherokee Campaign of 1776" (Travis Copeland, JAR)
"The Cherokee-American War from the Cherokee Perspective" (Jordan Baker, JAR)
"The Virginia-North Carolina Frontier in 1776" (A.G. Barnes, W&M)
"William Christian" (Gail S. Terry, Dictionary of Virginia Biography)
Veteran Accounts (Carolana)
Art: “The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians," by Charles Ferdinand Wimar (1853).
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