The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
Gen. WoodlDard Writes of
 Gen. Sam Dale, Noted Pioneer

trader and traded with the Upper Town Creeks: some of these upper towns, I win name, the Ockfuskees. Ciellgees, Fish Ponds or Talougees Hfllabys. Matches. Talladegas or the people of the border His principle partner was Colonel Harrisod Young The half breed that Colonel Pickett alludes to as his partner was his in- terpreter. John Berfort of Berford and was raised by General Adams. If Dale was ever a Colonel in the Georgia line and killed two Indians at Ocfuskee on the Chattahoochee I never heard of it. There was a trading path that crossed the Chattahoochee going to Ocfuskee on the Tallapoosa and a few Indians traded at 1t. but the only ocfuskee in my time was on the Tallapoosa river The Horse Shoe was called Ocfuskee.
 In point. recollect Colonel Fosh. he was the Adjutant General of Georgia The Georgians called him a French man. but he was a Polander and up- fortunately for him and his men. the records giving an account of him and his men and their exploits in Indian lighting have been lost. The only and principal fight between whites and Creek Indisns between the war of the Revolution and The war of 1913 and 1914. that has been left on record was Clark's fight at Jacks Creek. though
 
 before and ,after that.
 Not long after this fight which I think was in 1910 Dale and Young moved to Mississippi Territory. near St. Stephens. It is a mistake about Dale being at the Indian council at Tuckabatchy in 1911 at the time of Tecumseh's visit. and it Is also a mis- take about his having communicated to Colonel Hawkins about Tecumseh and his visit to the Creeks.
 GOVERNMENT HAD SPIES
 IN THE CREEK NATION
 For the Colonel had spies in tho nation that withheld the movements of him and Big Warrior. and Billy Macintosh was one of them and no white man was admitted into their councils; and could 1t now he ascer- tained to a certainty, I would hazard anything that I have that Tecumseh Seekaboo and their few followers were never seen by a half dozen white men that knew themSfrom the time they lief the Wabash until they returned to the Warpicanatti village.
 Christian Limbo. John Ward Rob Walton and Nimrod Doyle saw Tecum- sch at the Ta1lassee Square opposite Teckabatichie and the reason they were allowed to see him was that Wal ton and Doyle had known him in his younger days. These men have des- SiiDtu ltCuIuStn lO Itlt anu what satisfied me that they did so was that lived neighbor to Colonel Clee- yer of Arkansas who was Lieutenant in the last war or the war of 1872, and was at the battle of Thames.
 It will be recalled by those who knew Colonel Cleever that he was a great friend of Colonel Johnson but denied him the credit of killing Teculn- sch. He said Tecumseh was killed some time after Colonel Johnson was disabled and wounded: that he was killed at least three hundred yards from where the Colonel was shot. And while. I am at 1t. I will go into a min- ute detail of Colonel Clever's state ment as it corrobrates what Doyle and Walton told me.
 He said that the way the Indians rallied and fought around a certain In- dian until he was killed, and small trinket found on his person that he was supposed to be chief. And there be- ing but few if any who knew Tecum- sch except General Harrison, 1t was some time after the close of the fight that 1t was discovered that the dead Indian was Tecumseh, and 1t was only ascertained through the General.
 The circumstance of the bold stand being made by the supposed Chief be. ing communicated to General Harrison
 Ssssses ssf s %asrs secst the s.s suppess ,,. mangled and as General Harrison ap- preached the spot soldier was in the act of taking off a piece of skin from the dead Indians thigh. The General ordered the soldier to stop, saying that he regretted to know that he had such a man In his camp, ana reprimanded him severely.
 He had some water brought had the Indian washed and stretched out at full length and examined his teeth and pronounced the dead Indian to be Tecumseh. One of Fecumseh's legs was a little shorter than the other, and the foot on the short leg a little smaller, and he had a halt in his walk that was perceptible, and he had a tooth, that. although 1t was not de- cayed 1t was of a bluish cast.
 This was Colonel Cleever's statement that I have heard him make a hundred times, and his description corroborates that of Doyle and Walton of Tecum- Sch. At all events Tecumseh was kill ed at the battle of the Thames; his tory or some portions of it gives the