The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-24
DESCENDANTS OF THE
 HOSTILE CREEK INDIANS

had been done by the white settlers who knew they wSIe in desperate straits. An urgent appeal was sent to General Andrew Jackson, commanding the militia of Tennessee, and a new army was raised among the Bigbee settlers and the white people of Mis- sissippi.
 The appeal to Jackson fell upon eager ears. He wa, then in bed suf- fering from the grievohs wounds he sustained in his famous encounter with Thomas H. and Jesse Benton at Nash vile. Jackson marched his Tennes- see volunteers south innicting a defeat upon the Indians at Talladega.
 The Bigbee and Mississippi volun- teers came north to join forces.
 OutPOgea Upon Settlers.
 There were other engagements of minor importance, small but sangui- nary affairs and there were the out rages upon lonely settlers and travel lers that ever marked Indian warfare.
 The white soldiers received valuable assistance from Indian allies. The Choctaws were especially pronounced in their sympathies with the whites. And some of the Creeks threw their fortune with the settlers. When Fort Mims was taken some of Weatherford's own family were within It's walls Hannah McNac, a blood relation of Red Eagle. was taken to Pensacola and sold as slave to General Panton. Panton however, knew her relation to the war leader and when the trouble was over he restored her @ her family.
 At Echanaata where the Indians en- trenched in their town were attacked by the whites, Weatherford did one of the things that made his personality and his career so romantic and so pie turesque. In his poem Red Eagle" Meek gives stirring description of Weatherford's leap on horseback from blum into the Alabama river. He leads up to it with a portrayal of the uncanny orgies of the medicine men of the village the night before the fight.
 The village was supposed to be holy ground, sacred from the foot of the white man. The medicine men in the weird glow of the pine knot fires is pictured as predicting the death of ev- cry white man who should profane the sacred soil by his touch. He was to die by the lightning and the storm, to shrivel up in the shoots of flame that would dash from the Heavens.
 But the Indians on the next day were beaten back. hemmed in on the river bank and defeated with great slaugh- ter. At the close of the disastrous day
 
 the river blum on a fleet white horse. He was hemmed in and there was ap- parently no escape for him. As he spurred his horse along, he turned his head and both disappeared over the bluR. Horse and rider sank beneath the waters of Alabama. Both rose af- ter few moments. Weathereford was holding the mane of his horse with one hand and with the other he held his rifle high above his head.
 He regatned the saddle as the horse swan the river, and he shouted in deh- ance to his foes as the Intelligent an- final climbed the Autauga County bank and disappeared with him in the bush es.
 Fabulous stories were told of the height from which weatherford made his leap. The blum was really only ten or fifteen feet above the water.
 Battle of Horse Shoe Bend.
 The battle of Horse Shoe Bend was fought March 27, 1874. General Jack son, commanding the whites and their Indian allies, had under him about 2.0OO men. The hostile Creeks who were called Red Sticks because their clubs were painted red, numbered about ,O0o. .Theg occupied a strongly ensrenched