The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-08-24

The warm nourishment revived il, and, with
the child in her arms, standing with difficult
ty upon her feet she walked slowly towards
the fort. Before reaching it, exhausted ma
ture almost gave away. She placed the child
i'll II hollow log and in the early morning the
inmates of the fort were startled by the ap-
preach of Il scalped and suffering woman,
whom they soon recognized and cared for
She gave information concerning her child,
and IT was soon also within the fort Both
mother and child recovered, the short hair
Of the little boy having prevented his being
| sCalped.
The same morning, according to Clark
county tradition, September B, according to
| Pickett, Colonel Carson at Fort Glass, hay
hearcd of the massacre, sent Lieutenant Bal
| ley with seven soldiers and three scouts
| some say nineteen soldiers-tO assist in bury
| ing the dead, and to learn the number of
Indians. These, with the fort forces, proceed
ed TO Ransom Kmbell's house, brought up
| twelve bodies On an OK cart, and buried them
near the fort AS the nasty burial services
were closing, nearly all the inmates oftLe
tort being without the stockade. Francis, with
| his hundred warriors, came suddenly upon
| them. Anaged man named Phillips, sitting
beside the gate way, first observed the In
dams approaching in single file in a half bent
| position, and mislook them for wild turkeys,
but the younger and keener eyes OF lsham
| kimbell detected the reality, and the alarm
| was instantly given. The men took the child
rem in their arms, and all who were engaged
| in the burial services gained the entrance to
| the fort before the warriors reached them;
| but several women were ut the spring. whose
| retreat TO the fort seemed to be hopelessy cut
| off. And now was performeda sudden deed
| of noble daring. Isaac Hayden, written by
| Meek, Haden, called by Pickett, Heaton-
| said by Pickett to have just returned from a
deer hunt, an l by Brewer, to have been hunt
ing cows, but on Clark county authority,
one of the soldiers from Fort Glass, mounted
horse cheered all the dogs of the fort, in
| number sixty, or more, upon the Indians, and
dashed forward himself to the defence of the
women. The ascent from the spring is steep;
the bold horseman and the fierce hounds
rushed down upon the startled savagcs, and
the Creek warriors were forced to halt and
defend themselves from the fury of these
dogs of war" indeed which the soldier hunt
err had "let slip" The brave dogs did their
duty well, and the gallant Hayden etfectualy
secured the entrance into the fort of every
woman except one, Mrs. Phillips, whom the
Indians overlook and scalped. Hayden's
coat was riddled it is said, with bullets; his
bold horse fell under him, but recovering
fort. THUS, contrary to Mr.. Eggleston's
state -ment, the noble horse escapet.-F.l
Then the baffied and enraged Indians attack
ed the little stockade, but Sinquetield was
resolutely defended; the gate was closed
and with the loss of number of warriors,
the party of the prophet Francis taking the
horses of the soldiers from Fort Glass, which
they found tethered without the stockade,
made hasty retreat. Although they had
successfully repulsed one band of Creek war
rors, the occupants effort Snquetield knew
not how soon Weatherford and his thousand
might surround them, and they left the fort
the next day, and marched to the more Sc
cure quarters of Fort Madison"
The author proceeds TO state that this
tockade-Sinquefield- thus bravcy de.
Tended by but thirty-tive white men, who ere
pulsed hundred red warriors, about mid
day on Thursday, September 9, 1913, them
selves losing but one man, while the Indians
lost in killed and seriously and fatally wound
ed about one,tifth of their number"
The author gives diagram representing
the location of the fort, and the Kimhel
house. where the massacre OCcurr d. also of
the burial place of the slam, and the residen-
ces of persons now living in the immediate
vicinity, and adds:
LET us now glance ut the spot marked d
on the diagram before us, in the northeast
quarter of section nineteen This represents
the spot where, in the middle of the afternoon
of September l, 1913, the Creek Indians so
suddenly entered II pioneers home and dealt
their savage blOwsupou women and children.
members of the kimbell and James families.
Everything now on and around the scene of
this tragic event is in keeping with what IL
poet or historian would like to find. Sixty
four years have passed away, QS77) The
one survivor is an aged man. A growth of
young pines, covering several acres, extends
over and around the place of massacre, reach
ing westward about twenty rods The shade
is dark and deep in this pine grove. An old
| china tree, and the roots and decay ing body
| of another, and younger looking cedar, are
near where the house once stood Close by,
six rods distant, is the brow of the slight elc.
walton above Bassetts Creek bottom, along
| which the dim trace of an old road appears.
| The repose and solitude of nature here is in
harmony with the varied associations of the
place Here once was life, here came Indian
warriors and sudden death, near by came
new life, Il new home, and peaceful death.
| And now the pine solitude is over nll 1t
| seems II pity that this solitude should ever he
| disturbed 1t certainly ought To he left for
| the sunshine and the birds. 1t will not he
| disturbed during the present ownership, yet
none can tell how soon the wnodman's axe
| in some ruthless or thOughirss hand will
| change this part of the plantation into an
open field nor how soon the pillow share will
pass over these now secluded and, in some
sort sacred spots. 1t is not probable that in
the year 1913. or thirty six years from now
one can sit beneath this china-rre and write
such memorials as these"
| With this accurate history of the Charge
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