Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) RED EAGLE AND THE WARS WITH THE CREEK INDIANS OF ALABAMA. _FAMOUS AMERICAN INDIANS._ BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON. NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, 751 Broadway. COPYRIGHT BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY. 1878. [Illustration: RED EAGLE'S LEAP.] PREFACE. A work of this kind necessarily makes no pretension to originality in its materials; but while all that is here related is to be found in books, there is no one book devoted exclusively to the history of the Creek war or to the life of William Weatherford, the Red Eagle. The materials here used have been gathered from many sources--some of them from books which only incidentally mention the matters here treated, touching them as a part of larger subjects, and many of them from books which have been long out of print, and are therefore inaccessible to readers generally. The author has made frequent acknowledgments, in his text, of his obligations to the writers from whose works he has drawn information upon various subjects. By way of further acknowledgment, and for the information of readers who may be tempted to enlarge their reading in the interesting history of the South-west, he appends the following list of the principal books that have been consulted in the preparation of this volume: Parton's "Life of Andrew Jackson." Eaton's "Life of Andrew Jackson." Pickett's "History of Alabama." Drake's "Book of the Indians." McAfee's "History of the Late War in the Western Country." Claiborne's "Notes on the War in the South." Meek's "Romantic Passages in South-western History." "Indian Affairs, American State Papers." Kendall's "Life of Jackson." Waldo's "Life of Jackson." Russell's "History of the Late War." Brackenridge's "History of the Late War." CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Showing, by way of Introduction, how Red Eagle happened to be a Man of Consequence in History CHAPTER II. Red Eagle's People CHAPTER III. Red Eagle's Birth and Boyhood CHAPTER IV. The Beginning of Trouble CHAPTER V. Red Eagle as an Advocate of War--The Civil War in the Creek Nation CHAPTER VI. The Battle of Burnt Corn CHAPTER VII. Red Eagle's Attempt to abandon his Party CHAPTER VIII. Claiborne and Red Eagle CHAPTER IX. Red Eagle before Fort Mims CHAPTER X. The Massacre at Fort Mims CHAPTER XI. Romantic Incidents of the Fort Mims Affair CHAPTER XII. The Dog Charge at Fort Sinquefield and Affairs on the Peninsula CHAPTER XIII. Pushmatahaw and his Warriors CHAPTER XIV. Jackson is helped into his Saddle CHAPTER XV. The March into the Enemy's Country CHAPTER XVI. The Battle of Tallushatchee CHAPTER XVII. The Battle of Talladega CHAPTER XVIII. General Cocke's Conduct and its Consequences CHAPTER XIX. The Canoe Fight