The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-12-19

committed BY the Seminole Indians, WHO
lived in Florida, and who would make
ireouentincursions into Georgia territory.
Florida was then sore spot L was
then under the dominion Of Spain and
ever since the days Of Oglethorpe the M
bal.taats la i exercised great deal Of
animogity against the Georgians The
seminole Indians had been reinforced
bv 4 band Of seeding Indians from the
Creeks. Of Georgia, and known ~ Ked
sticks who would not recognize the
treaty made at Fort Jackson, in which
the Creeks had coded a Large portion o.
their territory to the whites. These hed
sticlso carried with them a great many
runaway negroes from Georgia and South
Carolina, who also joined the Seminole
indians in their frequent marauding ex-
peditions against the southern tron1ier
OF Georgia. -,
On March 80, 1917, Governor David
b Mitchell, Of Georgia, wrote 70 hon
John @. Calhoun, secretary Of war, the
following communication;
"By yesterdays mail, ] received 2 let-
ter from Mr.. Timothy Barnard, who re-
aides On Flint river in the Indian coun-
try, in which he observes:
Z. i have been informed 2 days past
from below where the Red Stick class
reside, that a party has made down near
III Mary,s and murdered woman ana
children and brought off some horses.
eaThe Red Sticks have commenced
their war dances again, which is PROOF
that they mean to commence hostilities.
Our forts Crawford and Gaines have been
evacuated and this has encouraged the
Red Sticks, who believe that our troops
we're afraid to continue. +"
This communication caused the secfe-
tarv IF war to order General jackson
from Nashville with two regiments q
soldiers to join General Gaines, who was
already in South Georgia with ms Orig
ade. and prevent further hostilitions.
On Jan. 20, 1918, Gen. jackson wrote
TO the secretary Of war !,
"The troops ] have with me, joined
with the Georgia troops on the southern
frontier, win enable me to intiict speedy
and merited chatisement on the deiuded
Seminoles.
The point then that The troops were
directed to march to was to Fort Scott,
which is situated at the injunction o.
The Flint and Chsttahooche rivers. All
Of the territory between Hartford haw-
kinsyille now and Fort Scott was en-
tirely roadless, with nothing but indian
trails. except through this eectlon the
trail that has been made by Gen. Black
shear during the war Of 1912 was still
Kent intact Jackson then commenced
his march from Fort Hawkins (Maconl
10 Hartford (Hawkinsville) and from
thence to Fort Early tWarwick) and
passed exactly over the spot where the
citv Of Cordele is now standing,
It il not our purpose here to detail the
adventures Of this march; how Jackson
was fed by the friendly Chehaw Indians
near Cordele, nor Of the many thrilling
acts Of bravery committed in adventures
with hostile Indians. These historic
spots are being marked allalong this trail
by the Daughters Of the American Re
volution. Council Of Safety Chapter at
Americus have already erected large
monument % commemorate the friendly
village ~ Chehaw where Jackson army
was fed and quartered; Stony Castle
chapter, d. A. RI, Dawson, Ca, have
marked the trail OF Jackson's army
through Terrell county; appropriate ex,
ercises win soon be had to mark the cities
Of Fort Early and Warwick, Ga. his
tory Of this old fort which was erected
under Gov. Farly's administration by
GEN. Blackshear and afterwards used by
Gen. Gaines army and Jackson's army
in defense against the Indians.
The Roman historian Sallust, in his
great history of the Jugurthine wars,
said that the reason why Rome became
mistress Of the world and her soldiers by
their prowess overcame the armies Of all
other countries was because the Romans
never forgot the nnselfish and heroic
deeds Of their people. On every public
street in Rome were monuments to great
men who had lived and given the works
Of their lives to the upbuilding OF the
state. The capitol at Rome was filed
with statues Of the country's great men.
Surely some day the daughters of the
American Revolution win mark the spot
At Cedar Creek in Crisp county where the
last attack ever made by the Indians in
that section was repealed.
Ii was on January 22nd., 1918, when
Major F. E. Heard was ordered by Gen.
Glasscock to meet Capt. Leigh, who was
proceeding from Hartford with packs of
provisions. At Cedar Creek, very near
where Cordele is now situated, halt was
made. There was great difficulty then in
crossing the creed. Capt. Leigh and