page_title: Battle of Tallushatchee
section_title: Battle
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Tallushatchee / Battle
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: thrillingadventu00bray (find matches) Title: Thrilling adventures by land and sea. Being remarkable historical facts, gathered from authentic sources Year: 1852 (1850s) Authors: Brayman, James O., 1815-1887, ed Subjects: Adventure and adventurers Publisher: Buffalo, G. H. Derby and co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: y, and Jack Diver, los-ing his stirrups and his presence of mind together,twisted his hands into the horses mane, to keep hisseat, letting the reins fall on his neck. At last,with a rear and a bound into the air, the maddenedanimal darted off at a gallop; but the faster hewent, the closer stuck the persevering wasps. JackDiver shut his eyes, screaming with fear and pain.Then the Carib chief rose up, and again the hawk-like scream echoed along the valley. The turn isto be made — can the horse recover himself? Yes,maddened as he is, he sees the danger instinctively.His speed slackens — he throws himself on hishaunches, with his fore feet on the very brink ofthe precipice. One more chance! The blind,infatuated man remains on his back. Again thehorse feels the stings of his deadly persecutors;again he plunges forward, striving to turn quicklyround the corner. Round, and he is in comparativesafety. On a sudden, from behind a buttress ofprojecting rock, there start across the path three Text Appearing After Image: BY LAND AND SEA. 439 dusky forms, flinging their hands wildly in the air.Then was heard that rare and awful sound, theshriek of a horse in the fear of a certain and comingdeath; when swerving one side, he lost his footingon the slippery shelf, and struggling madly, but un-successfully, to recover it, he fell over and over —down — down — a thousand feet down! From thesailors lips there came no cry. MASSACRE OF FORT MIMMS. On the 30th of August, 1813, Fort Mimms,which contained one hundred and fifty men, underthe command of Major Beasely, besides a numberof women and children, was surprised by a partyof Indians. The houses were set on fire, and thosewho escaped the flames fell victims to the toma-hawk. Neither age nor sex was spared; and themost horrible cruelties, of which the imaginationcan conceive, were perpetrated. Out of the threehundred persons which the fort contained, only sev-enteen escaped to carry the dreadful intelligence tothe neighboring stations. 440 THRILLING ADVE Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Battle of Tallasseehatchee was a battle fought during the War of 1812 and Creek War on November 3, 1813, in Alabama between Native American Red Stick Creeks and United States dragoons. A cavalry force commanded by Brigadier General John Coffee was able to defeat the Creek warriors.
context_section_description: Coffee took about 900 dragoons and arrived on November 3 at the village, where he divided his brigade into two columns that encircled the town.  Two companies ventured into the center of the circle to draw out the warriors.  The trap worked: The warriors attacked and were forced to retreat back into the buildings of the village.  Coffee closed the circle in on the trapped warriors. Davy Crockett, serving in the Tennessee Militia, commented, "We shot 'em down like dogs." In his memoirs he also described participating in burning down a house where 46 Creek warriors and their families had taken refuge.
  Coffee's forces killed 186 warriors, as well as many women and children, while suffering only 5 dead and 41 wounded.
  Writing about the event years later, Richard K. Call recalled:
  "The next morning after our march we entered the Indian village, and here I first saw the carnage of the battle field. I saw it in its worst aspect – when the hour of danger had passed, when I could excite no feeling or passion in my breast, to control my sympathy and sorrow for human suffering. It was to me a horrible and revolting scene – the battle had ended in the village, the warriors fighting in their board houses, which gave little protection against the rifle bullets or musket ball. They fought in the midst of their wives and children, who frequently shared their bloody fate. They fought bravely to the last, none asking or receiving quarter, nor did resistance cease until the last warrior had fallen. Humanity might well have wept over the gory scene before us. We found as many as eight or ten dead bodies in a single cabin, sometimes the dead mother clasped the dead child to her breast, and to add another appalling horror to the bloody catalogue – some of the cabins had taken fire, and half consumed human bodies were seen amidst the smoking ruins. In other instances dogs had torn and feasted on the mangled bodies of their masters. Heartsick I turned from the revolting scene. Very different seems the picture in the cool moment of inaction than in the excitement of battle – in the one – passion, the desire to triumph, and vengeance make demons, in the other as the brain becomes more composed, the pulse to beat less quickly, the heart resumes its sway – and it would be a relief to shed tears over the carnage around us – I remember an instant of a brave young soldier, who after fighting like a tiger until the engagement was over, fainted at the sight of the blood he had helped to spill."
  This battle was the first battle in General Andrew Jackson's military campaign.  A week later, General Jackson inflicted another serious defeat on the Red Sticks at the Battle of Talladega.
caption: General Coffee attacks the Indians
exif: {}