The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-16
Secured a Commission as a Major
 From the State of Georgia
 After His Expedition to, Florida.

fIn this narrative General Woodward teIls of the Indian uprisings and the part he played.--The Editor)
 returned to Georgia and in Novem- her General Clark and some other gen tlemen employed me to go to St. Au- Rustfne after some negroes that haa left them. I went to Camden county and got e Capt. William Cone to go with me Into Florida. l failed to get the negroes but saw Peter Mcqueen and Josiah Francis for the first time had seen them in years, for 1t was before the war that I had seen them last. They were then trading at Fort Hawkins. They informed me that some of the negroes were on the Sewanee. ct Bowlegs' Town.
 returned to Milledgevfile, remained few days. went into the Creek Ma ton, and got a white man bv the name of John winslett, and we started Tor Sewanee. We got below Flint Riv- CT. to Nehe Marthla's town--or Fort Town--and found times a little. too warm, and returned to Ochehaw. or Flint. River. From there went to Hartford. and winslett to chatta- hoochee.
 Some time in January. 1877. I took trip to North Carolina I returned 10 Georgia in March, and was again
 
 runaway negroes.
 got e half breed. named Laufauka. better known to the whites as John Blount--and an old Cusseta Indian named Tobler, who spoke fine English for an Indian~-and we put out and reached Bowieg's Town. Arbuthnot had a store close by. and he informed part of them, were in the neighbor- hood. but that I would hazard too much in attempting to arrest them. l quit the place and saw nothing more of it for over year. at which time helped to burn up the place.
 spent pretty much of that summer In the settlements on the Alabama River, and among the Indians. made me another claim on the Autauga side.
 Returns To Georgia.
 On my return to Georgia, in the latter part of the summer. General Mitchell who was then the Indian agent. informed me that he had just received a letter from Arbuthnot, stat ing that the Florida Indians would do niischief and that he (Mitcheill had better caution the travellers on the Military Road. as we'll as inform our government of their intentions. It was done and a call was made for troops
 Baldwin. Hancock, Washington, Put man and Morgan counties had to elect major offered my services--my opponents were Capt. Joseph H. How. nrd, with whom I had served in two expeditions and who was my captain tn both--and Capt. John D. Broadnax, very efficfent officer who had distin- Eutshsd himself in General Floyds lights. But if so turned out that I got more votes than both of them. Cover nor Rabun declared that he was grati- ned nt my success. and would issue a commission forthwith, that I should bavs the title. if nothing else.
 The troops were not ordered out im5 nsediAteiy. and I was made Deputy sheriff Of the county. bought an in- xerestl with one John Jeter in a tay- Nfn. mad an interest in a faro bank. and many other things to attend to, too tedious to mention.
 All these things. with the aid of my partners in business broke me. and had nothing left but a Majors com- mission to depend upon.
 Finally the troops were ordered out { 90 rendezvous at Fort Hawkins--J had nothing to do but leave a few debts unsettled and put out I hap pened to be the oldest Major. and there being no Colonel or Brigadier- Gen. eral then at headquarters. I took com Enand of the two Battaltions of Infan- try and two Troops of Cavalry. Short " Afterwards . MT. wimberly was made Colonel. and Gen. Thomas Glass cock appointed to the command of the whole. The General and Colonel disagreed, and I associated mostly with a Captain Melvin, who had com fnand of a company of United States Artillery.
 There was little done except foot racing, wrestling, and drinkink whis- key, when we could set 1t. The troops never went more than forty miles be- yond the line
 Remarkable Oeeurances.
 will give you a few of the most remarkable occurrences that took place We travelled one day until after two