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disturbed fired into the bushes. One
of the Indians was mortally wounded;
the other one escaped.
The death of this Indian aroused the
Creeks and that night there was a
great pow-wow The Indians donned
their war costumes and had war
dance, creating such noise that they
attracted attention They desired 20
retaliate by crossing the river and
taking revenge for the murder of this
Indian.
Two of the most prominent men in
the affairs of their community were
Hr Swan Burnett and jeremiah Cas-
tleberry, who induced Good, knowing
his friendliness with the Indians, to 90
into the Creek villages and allay tn is
trouble. Good went to several viii
lagos and talked with them and in
duced those villages to keep quiet.
Eut lot of young bucks, dissatisfied
with Goods influence, went to Eufaula
town and aroused the Indians. TIL
'gas the next day and following this
was another Indian pow-Wow at En-
faula town. The Indians crossed tine
river, burned the town known as old
Poanoke on the Georgia side of the
Chattahoochee, where they murdered
several white men, women and child
rem. Roanoke is displaced from the
Il ap and was at that time of consid-
cradle Importance and was near to
what is known now as Omaha the
burning of Roanoke aroused all of thl
whites along the river and the first
company to move out against the IN
eiens were the Ft. Gaines Volunteer
Guards, commanded by Capt. James
Perdy Holmes. One of the officers of
thiS company was a cousin of CAP.
Holmes, William C. G. Johnston. Then
this company marched from old Roa-
noEe and moved into the interior on
the Georgia side, bringing the II.
dams before them down to Lumpkia
in the Chicasawhatchee swamps. The?
! took refuge on an island. To approach
this island it was necessary to wade
the swamps, using trees and fallen
logs for conveyances. The attacking
party succeeded in dislodging the In
dams who deserted their camp and
went south to Florida. When the conf
pany reached the island they found a
number of Indians left the camp af-
flicted with smallpox Not knowing
what the disease was, the men became
TO certain extent infected. After
coming back to the mainland the men
held council to decide what should
be done. The surgeon, DR.. William
Ford, advised that the ones who had
been exposed should remain in camp
in the pine woods until the danger had
passed; the infected ones remained in
camp under command of Col William
c. G. Johnston Having been exposed,
Mr. Johnston decided that he would
inoculate himself and he and a friend
got his cousin, Buchanan, who lately
died while living at Blakely, to inoc-
ulate themselves with virus from
sick Indian The two men were des-
perately sick, but recovered, and Wm.
C. g. Johnston lived until 1892 and
Mr. Buchanan was living at Blakely,
Georgia when last heard from. An
interesting thing in connection with
this negro Good, who had been a slave
all his life in the Harden family, was
the proposal made by the Creek In
dams to buy Good and make him a
chief the tribe. Col Mark A. Har-
den will recall this incident more
clearly than the writer. Another in
cident in writing up this Indian raid
is related by VIM. c. G. Johnstoc
which was impressed upon him at the
trial Of the chief priest who led the
raid. He was tried before the Geor-
gia court, and defended by Geo. C..
Colquit AS Mr.. Johnston related H.,
Col. COlQUit during tha trial of tba