Chickamaugas Make Open War. 
    Try to Deceive Blount.

When such outrages were committed at the very time the treaty was being held, it was hopeless to expect peace.  In September the Chickamaugas threw off the mask and made open war.  When the news was received Blount called out the militia and sent word to Robertson that some friendly Cherokees had given warning that a big war party was about to fall on the settlements round Nashville. [Footnote:  American State Papers, IV., Blount to Secretary of War, Sept. 11, 1792.] Finding that the warning had been given, the Chickamauga chiefs sought to lull their foes into security by a rather adroit peace of treachery.  Two of their chiefs, The Glass and The Bloody Fellow, wrote to Blount complaining that they had assembled their warriors because they were alarmed over rumors of a desire on the part of the whites to maltreat them; and on the receipt of assurances from Blount that they were mistaken, they announced their pleasure and stated that no hostilities would be undertaken.  Blount was much relieved at this, and thought that the danger of an outbreak was past.  Accordingly he wrote to Robertson telling him that he could disband his troops, as there was no longer need of them.  Robertson, however, knew the Indian character as few men did know it, and, moreover, he had received confidential information about the impending raid from a half-breed and a Frenchman who were among the Indians.  He did not disband his troops, and wrote to Blount that The Glass and The Bloody Fellow had undoubtedly written as they did simply to deceive him and to secure their villages from a counter-attack while they were off on their raid against the Cumberland people.  Accordingly three hundred militia were put under arms. [Footnote:  Robertson MSS., Blount to Robertson, Sept. 6, 1792; Blount to The Bloody Fellow, Sept. 10, 1792; to Robertson, Sept. 12; to The Glass, Sept. 13; to The Bloody Fellow, Sept. 13; to Robertson, Sept. 14; Robertson to Blount, Sept. 26, 1792.]

    Attack Buchanan’s Station. 
    Failure of the Attack.

It was well that the whites were on their guard.  Towards the end of September a big war party, under the command of John Watts and including some two hundred Cherokees, eighty Creeks, and some Shawnees, left the Chickamauga Towns and marched swiftly and silently to the Cumberland district.  They attempted to surprise one of the more considerable of the lonely little forted towns.  It was known as Buchanan’s Station, and in it there were several families, including fifteen “gun-men.”  Two spies went out from it to scour the country and give warning of any Indian advance; but with the Cherokees were two very white half-breeds, whose Indian blood was scarcely noticeable, and these two men met the spies and decoyed them to their death.  The Indians then, soon after midnight on the 30th of September, sought to rush the station by surprise.  The alarm was given