A Conquering Spirit
Subtitle: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: November 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780817314910
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of specific subjects; War & defence operations; Massacres; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Military - United States; United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Fort Mims; Alabama; Creek War, 1813-1814
Description: The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims, involving hundreds of dead men, women, and children, was just such a spark.

Gregory Waselkov tells compellingly the story of this fierce battle at the fortified plantation home of Samuel Mims in the Tensaw District of the Mississippi Territory. With valuable maps, tables, and artifact illustrations, Waselkov looks closely at the battle to cut through the legends and misinformation that have grown around the event almost from the moment the last flames died at the smoldering ruins. At least as important as the details of the battle, though, is his elucidation of how social forces remarkably converged to spark the conflict and how reverberations of the battle echo still today, nearly two hundred years later.