The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-06

covfnrton's mare and colt with, which
many of the old settlers win recoi-
lect. So ends the sfickasucky hight
At st. Marks, Arbuthnot was ar
rested and afterwards hanged. AT
the Macintosh light Isaac Brown
Killed one indian. on our march from
st. Marks to Sawahy. the old half
breed Biount ana were ahead and
discovered some Indians that were
cutting a bee tree. We halted for
the purpose Of getting some friendly
Indians TO surround them, but some
OF the mounted Tennessee men came
up ana we pointed them out and re-
quested the mounted men to walt un-
til the friendly indiana came up--that
II was possible the bee hunters might
be friendly Indians, but they made 2
rush upon the Indians who proved to
be three men, q woman and two
children; they made no resistance,
but the mounted men killed one Of the
men, broke another's thigh, shot the
woman through the body. shot on the
under Jaw Of one of the children and
broke an arm OF the other The third
man escaped. On my return by the
lying dead--the child with the broken
arm and the one with the broken
thigh had left The next white mar
that was killed was q man sitting In
4 crowd. where another white man
was picking his gun flint; the gun
went on and killed him. That was
the day we reached ,sawar1ee. While
at that place we picked up Robert
Ambrista, commonly known as Rob-
ert Ambrister. He was afterwards
shot. having been tried and condemn
cd as spy. which AFFAIR you know
TALES OF THE FrGHTsS
WE'RE EXAGGERATED.
You now have the whole Of what
was done In the Seminole campaign
Of is17-isis. except what was done
by the friendly indians. I think Or.
Grantiand OF MiiIedseyilis, could fur
nish you with the Jofficiai report Of
the Macintosh night. Tt was In April
1918, and was published In Minedge-
Vile paper. either By Gfantiand OF
Hines.
The number killed at sawanee BY
friendly indians do not know, as
many Of them were killed In the
river. There were but four white
men with the Indians, or in the hsht
at Sawany Brown, Finley. Carter
and myself and enfess q stray shot
from one Of our guns killed an In
dian. or a negro, the friendly Indians
were entitled to all the credit for the
affair. was not at the taking OF
Pensacola, ana cOuto not teh WhA.
was done there Now IL the firing OF
few guns and the Killing OF a stray
Indian or two can be called fights.
have seen many. but as did not
think proper to detail them at
time when perhaps q little capital
might have been made of them. VIII
dispense with It now.
while I am at this let me correct
a few more errors that many have
| fati6n into. You, no doubt, as many
others have seen the oficial reports
Of various fights where the whites
whipped the Indians and no dead onei
| left on the ground, but great Sign
OF the killed and wounded being drag
| ged or All that is necessary to sx
| plain this matter. 10 to ask you how
| many men II would take to carry OF
a dead man faster than slow foot
| man could follow on foot? I hav'
| seen much Indian skirmishing in m,
time (and those that know me best
believe that ] state facts, but never
| have I seen an indian. friendly OF
hostile, futl the least risk to carry OF
q dead FRIEND. have seen them aid
wounded ones and that is all. In
dams know the value of q dead Indian