The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
General Thomas W. Woodward Recalls the Reunion of Brothers Who Had Been Separated for a Life Time--0ne Died the Same
 Night. !

In his present letter General Thomas w. Woodward. recalling in a ripe old age, the incidents of his stirring youth. recounts the reconciliation of two brothers who were dramatically re- united at Fort Mitchell now. in Rus sell county. The incident at once dra- smatic and pathetic occurred in the re- mote year of 1873, when General Floyd and his Georgians were moving into Alabama to punish the Indians for dep relations against the pioneer whites. General Woodward does not essay the art of the novelist or the story writer. Ke tells it simply, as though he was about a hospitable hearthstone with . party of friends about him.
 It is great story. the account of the man who was brought as a child to what is now Wetumpka. by his father. white man, and raised there among the Indians; of the coming of the brother who had been left In Georgia and of the death of the Indian raised brother on the night of the reconcilia- ttou.
 The Indian raised brother as a child must have come with his father to the Creeks about Wetumpka before the be- ginning of the Nineteenth Century. possibly :n 17s6, or about then.
 The letter should have a special in- &4ECbt HUT hnc AodPbAStS VI Aa8b baAAAa Wtto have been quite active in collecting information about their pioneer preach- (srs. It Is the evidence of an acknowi- bdged authority that in 1873 there was ln the army of General Floyd an earn est and consecrated Baptist minister, Elijah Moseley, who was spoken of in the highest terms, by a comrade In arms. He needs no further commenda- : tion to be remembered than the state- L. E.. A. l.a ax.r. a pray all night and fight all day. just as his turn came and that he was true man in every sense of the word. Editorial Note.
 The ErOthers's Reunion.
 Wheeling, Winn., Parish, La,
 June 1s. 1858. q. J. Hooper, Esq.
 Dear Sir: Some time In April last directed a letter to you which was intended to be addressed to Col A. J. Pickett, through your paper. Whether 1t reached you or not I do not know. If 1t did and had been published would be glad to get the number of the paper that contains it, as I have promised a friend to let him have what wrote you, as to Indian history and the early settlement of Alabama. Your paper, until the last two months came more regularly than any take; since LnaI LlIlc I SeIuOIu sec UT HCdE OI 1nG Montgomery Mail I do not recollect the last number of The Mail did get.
 This country is like others I have lived in-too few reading people and too many of them find 1t more con venient to borrow newspaper than pay for one; and so, very often have mine loaned out. And that is why ] cannot recollect the last number I re- ceived. But I recollect that among Az. n. was one containing sketch; I think taken from a Boston paper giving an account of the meeting of three Scotch brothers. in Charleston, Mass, which meeting was not of a very common Oceurrence, and on reading that ] sixetched or the meeting of two broth CTS that I witnessed many years ago in. what is now Alabama, but what Twas then the Creek Nation and which T did not send you.
 While . YOuMgsteR.
 Some years before the Creek war and when I was quite a youngster, made occasional trips to the Ocmulgee Eiver which was then the dividing line between the whites and the Indians The Indians claimed half the river and in the spring or shad catching time, the Indians would flock from all, parts of the nation in great num-
 
 seen at every shoaI, as high up the river as the shad could run down to the Alatamaha, for the purpose oi fishing. On one of my trips to Fort Hawkins I became acquainted with an Indian countryman named John Ward and this first time I ever visited the Creek Agency which was then on Flint river, was in company with Ward an old uncle of mine and Andrew Me DouRald. Colonel Hawkins ewas then holding council with some chiefs from various parts of the nation, met with Ward occasionally from that time until the war commenced.
 When General Floyd moved his troops to Flint river, Ward was the interpreter for the officer that was in command at Fort Manning. He then came Into General Floyd's camp until it reached the Chattahoochee river and commencing building Fort Mit- chell.
 Ward was often sent out with Nim. rod Doyle as a spy. There was also an Indian countryman along by the name of Bob Moseley. Moseley's wife was the niece of Peter Mcqueen Wards wife was a relatiNn of Daniel McDonald, more generally known to the whites as Daniel McGillivray, and both of their wives were then with