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Life and Public Services of Genl. Andrew Jackson
Life and Public Services of Genl Andrew Jackson Author:John Stilwell Jenkins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. 813. Depredations committed by the Creeks on the borders of Ten. nessee and Kentucky—Attack on Fort Mimms—Preparations foi war—Jackson calls out t... more »he volunteers and militia—Address to the troops—Takes the field—Enforces strict military discipline—Rapid march to Huntsville—Delay in forwarding supplies—Thwarted in his movements by General Cocke—Jealousy of the latter—Scarcity of provisions—Efforts of Jackson to procure supplies—Address to the soldiers on entering the enemy's country—'Arrival at the Ten Islands—Difficulty wiih the contractors—Destitute condition of I he army—Battle of Tallushatchee—Humanity of Jackson— His adoption of an Indian boy. 1813. The repose of General Jackson and his volunteers was of short duration. They had scarcely reached their homes, when the Indian nations scattered over the territory composing the states of Alabama and Mississippi, made incursions into Tennessee and Kentucky, and committed the most savage murders and cruelties. The frontier settlements were constantly harassed by their depredations, and one atrocious act of barbarity followed so closely on another, that the inhabitants began to fear the worst from the revengeful spirit which Tecumseh, and his brother, the prophet, who were secretly aided and encouraged by the English government, had aroused in the breasts of their followers. The Creek Indians, residing in the vicinity of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, were the most hostile and vindictive of all the tribes. Having collected a supply of ammunition, from the Spaniards at Pensacola, a party of their warriors, numbering about seven hundred men, commanded by Weatherford, a distinguished chief of the nation, made an attack on Fort Mimms, situated in the Tensaw settlement, in the territory of Mississippi. The fort was occup...« less