Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-03-04
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE.
[coNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. |

Gen. Robertson on the 10Th of Septem.
ber, hich the General caused to be
reduced to writing, to be Immediately
transmitted by express to Gov. Blount.
Derogue stated that he was native Of
Canada, and came first to Cumberland
in the employment of Mr.. Fagot. On
the 10Th of June, Mr.. Fagot, he said,
left Red River and proceeded down
Cumberland River; in his boat Derogue
embarked for New Orleans, as a la
borer to row. On coming near Lane
lie Grace, Fagot told him all his men, =,
to tell the same story to the command.
ant which he should, that the people
of Cumberland and Kentucky were
preparing to attack the Spanish settle
ments. The commandant at Lans lie
Grace gave Mr.. Fagot large packet
for the Governor, the Baron de Caron-
dalet, at New Orleans, which, when
Mr.. Fagot delivered, he told the same
story of the hostile intentions of the
people of the United States as he had
to the commandant at Lans lie Grace
The Spanish officers asked Derogue if
it was true, to which he replied that he
had no cause to question the veracity
of Mr.. Fagot; the Baron de Carondalet
then told Derogue that he had sent by
McGillevray to inform the Creeks,
Cherokees and Choctaws, that they
must come to him to get arms and am
munition, but wished Derogue to go on
the same errand, which he agreed to
do. Richard Fendleston, Cherokee
half breed, who came down in the
boat from Cumberland, he sent with
him and gave them passports. The
Baron invited the Creeks by these two
messengers to come to him and get
arms and ammunition, ,and to 60 to war
against the people of Cumberland and
Holston; that the lands were theirs
and the property of no other people,
and that he would furnish them with
m cans to defend them, and he advised
them to be active and unanimous in
going to war quickly. They went by
water to Mobile and thence to Pensa.
cola, and thence to the Creeks by land.
Between the two last mentioned places,
they met three hundred Creeks in diff
ferent parties going to Pensacola for
arms and ammunition, as they said,
to 60 to war with against the United
States, and that by the directions of
the Spanish officers. He heard Gov.
Oneil of Pensacola say, he had Or
ders to excite to war the Creeks, Chero.
KEGS, Choctaws and Chickasaws, and
that he doubted whether the latter
would join. On arriving amongst the
Creeks, he found them generally pre-
pairing for war, and they were to set
out as soon as their ammunition should
arrive. He and Fendleston then came
to Willston of the Cherokees. About
the I'd of September, six hundred men
were there assembled celebrating
whether they would 90 to war with
the people of the Cumberland. The
chiefs who were there were unanimous
for war except the Bloody Fellow, who
opposed them. Derogue then told them
that he was sent by the Governor of
New Orleans to Mr.. De Mumbray, who
would inform him of the situation of
the country, and point out the most
proper places to be attacked; he showed
them the Governors passports. and
they suffered him to proceed; they
were to wait ten days for his return
and no more. On his way to Cumber-
land he saw four Creeks, who told him
that as soon as the ammunition should
arrive from Pensacola, upwards of one
thousand of them would turn out to
war against the Cumberland and Hol-
ston, and that they would certainly be
at Cumberland that noon. The Chero-
KEGS said that Mr.. Shaw had given in.
formation to Gov. Blount; but that
Watts. the Glass and some others of
the hostile chiefs, would write another
letter to him pretending friendship, to
take off the bad effects of Shaw g letter,
and to deceive the Governor, Fendle.
ston's information concurred with this,
and stated all that had really occurred
at the council, when they had resolved
on war, circumstantially.
Soon after Gen. Robertson had sent
off an express with this communica-
ton, he received the one sent to him
self by the Governor. He Immediately
raised the militia, leaving a few to
keep up the different stations; he col
lected five hundred men and placed
them under the command of Colonel
Elijah Robertson, Col Winchester, and
Capt John Rains, two miles from
Nashville. A troop of horse command.
ed by Col. Hays, was ordered to dis.
cover, if possible, at what point the
Indians intended to make the meditated
attack. Before the receipt of. the dis
patches from Gen. Robertson, which
apprised him of the deception which
the Bloody Fellow and others were to
practice upon him, the Governor, on
the 14th of September received letters
from the Bloody Fellow, on whom he
greatly relied, and from the Glass,
which stated, that they had stopped
the party from the lower towns, and
had turned them back, and that they
were now for peace. Solicitous, if pos