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his head fallen and evidently dying.
| spoke to him but he did not answer.
The interpreter Louis, it is said, fell
by the first fire. [We have since
learned that his fellow slammed this
death that his life was afterwards
spared through the Chief Jumper, and
that, being an educated negro. he read
all the dispatches + letters that were
found about the dead, TO the victorS.
We had barely raised our breast.
work knee high when we again saw
the Indians advancing in great num-
bers over the hill to our left. They
came on boldly till within a long mus
ket shot, when they spread them selves
from tree 10 tree to surround US, we
i'm me1iately extended as Light lnfau.
try; covering ourselves by the trees
and opening brisk fire from cannon
and musketry. The former don't
think could have done much mischief,
the Indians were so scattered.
Capt, Gardner, Lit. Bassinger, and
DR.. Gatlin, were the only officers left
unhurt by the voIly which killed Col.
Dade. LL Henderson had his lett
arm broken, but he continued TO load
his musket and 10 fire it, resting on
the stump until he was Gnally shot
down toward, the close of the
second attack and during the day he
kept up his spirits and Cheered the
men. 1t. Keyes had both his arms
broken IN the first attack; they were
bound up and swung in haOdker-
chief, ant he sat for the remainder Of
the day, until he was killed, reclining
against the breastwork-his head of.
ten reposiug against it-regardleSs of
every thing that was passing around
him.
'Our men were by degrees all cut
down. We had maintained steady
fight from until P. M. or therea-
bouts, aud allowing three quarters OF
an hour for interval between the first
and second attack, had been pretty bu
silly engaged fur more than five hours.
LIT. Is. was the only officer left alive,
and he was severely wounded. He
told me as the Indians approached to
lay down and feign myself dead. !
looked through The logs and saw the
savages approaching in grea, numbers.
A heavy made Indian, Of mid lie STA
ture, painted down TO The waist, (cof
responding in description TO Micanopy)
seemed 10 be the chief. lie made them
speech, frequently pointing TO The
breastwork. AT length they charged
into the work;-there was none 10 Of
fer resistance, and they did not seem
10 suspect the wounded being alive
Offering no indignity, but stepping a.
bout carefully, quietly stripping OF
our accoutrements and carrying away
our arms, they then retired in body
in the direction from which they
came.
Immediately on their retreat, forty
or fifty negroes on horseback galIOped
up and aIghted, tied their beasts, and
commenced with horrid shouts and
yells the butchery of the wounded, 10
gether with an indiscriminate plunder
stripping the bodies ofthe dead of clio
thing, watches and money, and split
ting open the heads Of all who showed
the least sign of life, with their axes
and knives, and accompanying their
bloody work with obscene and taunt-
ing deriSions, and with what have you
got TO sell?"
cit. B. hearing the negroes butch
ering the wounded, at length sprang
up and asked them to spare his life
Thew met him with the blows Of their
axes and their fendiSh slaughter
Having been wounded in five different
places myself was pretty we'll coveT
ed with blood, and The scratches that
had received in my head gave to me
the appearance of having been shot
through the brain, for the negroes af
ter catching ne up by the heels, threw
me down, saying "d---n him, he's
dead enoughW They then stripped
me of my clothes, shoes, hat, and
left me. After stripping all the dead
in this manner, they trundled off the
cannon in the direction the Indian:
had gone, and went away. saw them
first shoot wnthe oxen in their gear,
and burnt the Wagon.
One Of The other soldiers who eS
capped, says they threw the cannon In
to the pond, and burned its Garage
also. Shortly after the negroes wen
way, one Wilson, of Capt. G's com
pany crept from under some OF the
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