The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

Savannah, Oct. 9, 1879. He was a Judge
of the Inferior Court of Richmond
County, and also a Trustee of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
General Thomas Glascock, for whom
the county was named, was born in
Richmond county in 1887. He was APP
pointed Colonel of the forces raised by
order of the Legislature in 1916 to
operate against the Indians on the
Western frontier of the State. He was
afterwards elected a Major General of
Militia, and when the Federal Govern
TENT in 1917 called upon the State for
It's quota of troops to defend the
Southern frontier against the Semi
noles, Governor Irwin assigned Gene
raj Glascock to the command of them.
Those were exciting days in Georgia.
The Indians and runaway negroes in
Florida, melted by bad white men,
were necessarily threatening the set
tiers IN Lower Georgia, and had COM
mitted many depredations. From the
boundary line of the Spanish province
to the Altamaha River. there was a
feeling of insecurity. The condition
of affairs was no better to the west
ward; from the Chattahoochee to the
Mississippi river, the redskins were
restless, and the white traveller and
trader were in constant dread of los
ing their scalp locks. A majority of the
Creeks were friendly, not that they
loved the whites. but because they
hated other tribes of Indians.
The troubles on the southern from
tier led to brief and bloody cam
| paign against the Seminoles, in which
General Glascock and his Georgia
soldiers bore a conspicuous part
The attack upon the Indian village of
in hot &c.
county, which was destroyed by the
American troops by order of General
/ Gaines, was the beginning of the war
| Among the spoils captured by the
regulars in their raid on the Indian
| town was a scarlet coat with gold
epaulets, the uniform of a British Of
| ficer, and a letter written by Colonel
Edmund Nichols, who had been the
British commander in Florida in the
war of 1S12-15, in which that officer
stated that the Fowltown Indians were
true friends of Great Britain This
evidence and the commission of dread
full atrocities by the Indians a few days
after the Fowltown affair, showed that
the redskins were bent upon war.
They had been led to believe that they
could drive the white people away, and
they began their work of numbering
men, women and children, as the quick
est method of getting rid of the set
tiers. Nine days only had elapsed af-
ter the Fowltown affair when a boat
containing 40 soldiers, soldiers
wives, and children, under COM
mand of Lieut.. Scott of the Seventh
U. S. Infantry, while slowly warping
up the Apalachicola, when a mile from
the junction of that river with the
Flint, was fired upon. Lieut. Scott and
nearly every man fell at the first vol
ley. The Indians continued a murder
Gus fire into the boat, and when it
drifted near shore, rushed upon it and
slaughtered men, women and children.
The brains of the babies were dashed
out against the trees, the wounded SOL
diers were butchered, and the women
outraged.
The Seminoles, few days later, at
tackled another boat, killing and
wounding IS soldiers. 1t was only with
great difficulty, and after much suf-
fering, that this party reached Fort
Scott
The authorities at Washington, not
understanding the alarming situation,
had ordered Gen. Gaines, the COM
handing officer, to ST. Mary's, Ga, but
finding out the true conditions after
that mistake was made, determined to
reinforce the army and make a vigor-
the emergency, Gen. Andrew Jackson,
who had been made a major general
in the regular army and assigned
to the command of the Southern
military division, who was at his home,
the Hermitage" near Nashville, Tenn,
was ordered to take command in Lower
Georgia. The bearer of the order took
fifteen days to ride from Washington
! to Nashville, and Gen. Jackson, with
his usual promptness, lost no time in
getting ready; before he went to bed
on the night of Jan. II, 1918, that on
which he received Mr.. Calhouns let
ter, he had decided what should be
done. His orders said that there were
then 800 regulars and 1000 Georgia
militia in the field, and that if he
thought these troops not sufficient, to
call on the governors of adjacent states
for their militia.
AS there were no adjacent states to
call upon, and the Governor of Ten
nessee was absent from Nashville, Gen
jackson sent privately to his old voIun-
teer officers, who had fought under
him against the British and Indians,
I requesting them to meet him at once
at Nashville. They came, and the re-
suit was that within twenty days after
the express arrived from Washington
two regiments of West Tennesseans
and Kentuckians, amounting to 1000
men, were in camp. On the 22nd of
that month, Gen. Jackson left Nash
vile with a guard of two companies
of his Tennesseeans for Fort Scott
$50 miles distant. Eighteen days
march brought them to Fort Haw-
kins, opposite where the city of Macon
now stands; two days after he was at
Hartford, then a well known frontier
town on the edge of the Creek nation
This abandoned town is opposite
Hawkinsville. There he met Gen.
Glascock with the Georgia troops, and
found time to write a characteristic
letter to the Secretary of War de-
nouncing the system of supplying the
armies by contract. He suggested that
delinquent and dishonest contractors
should be subject to court martial The
generals idea was that if a contractor
was shot occasionally, there would be