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Description: Depiction of the Cherokee assault on Fort Watauga in what is now eastern Tennessee in July 1776. Future Tennessee governor John Sevier (1745–1815) is shown pulling his future wife, Catherine "Bonny Kate" Sherrill, over the fort's palisades.
Title: Fort-watauga-sevier-sherrill-tn1
Credit: William Robertson Garrett and Albert Virgil Goodpasture, History of Tennessee: Its People and Its Institutions, From the Earliest Times to the Year 1903 (Nashville: The Brandon Company, 1903), p. 60. Downloaded from Google Books, Full View.
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