Moo.NEY] BATTLES OK TAI.I.ADECA AND II I I.I.AMEE IHKi ill 



first tire with liis »;iiii. Tli<> Ainciii-iii loss wus only five killed jiiid 

 fortv-one wounded, wliicli may not include the Indian conf inyvnt.' 



White's advance yiiai'd. consistinji' chietly of the lour hundred olh(>r 

 Cherokeeninder Moro:an and Lowrey. reached 'rallaseehatchee the same 

 evening, only to tind it already destroyed. They i)icked up twenty 

 wounded Creeks, whom they ludu^ht with thi'in In Turkeytown.- 



The next great hattle was at Talladega, on the site of tlie present 

 town of the same name, in Talladega county. Alaliama. on Novend)er '.t, 

 1813. Jackson couunande(l in jH'rson with two thousand infantry and 

 cavalry. Although the Cherokee are not sju'citically mentioned they 

 were a part of the army and nuist have taken part in the engagement. 

 The town itself was occupied by fiiendly Creeks, who were besieged 

 by the hostiles. estimated at over one thousand wari-iors on the out- 

 side. Here again the battle was simply a slaughter, tlie odds ))eing 

 two to one, the Creeks being also without cover, although they fought 

 so desperately that at one time the militia was driven l)ack. They 

 left two hundred and ninety-nine dead bodies on the field, which, 

 according to their own statement afterwards, was only a part of 

 their total loss. The Americans lost fifteen killed and eighty-tive 

 wounded.^ 



A day or two later the people of Hillabee town. ai>out th(> site of 

 the present village of that name in Clay county, Alabama. s(Mit mes- 

 sengers to Jackson's camp to ask for peace, which that conuiiander 

 immediately granted. In the meantime, even while th(> peace mes- 

 sengers were on their way home with the good news, an army of one 

 thousand men from east Tennessee under General White, who claimed 

 to be independent of Jackson's authority, together with four hundred 

 Cherokee under Colonel (xideon ^Morgan and John Lowrey. surrounded 

 the town on November IS, 1S13. taking it bj' surprise, the inhabitants 

 having trusted so contidently to the success of their peace embassy 

 that they had made no pn^paration for defense. Sixty warriors were 

 killed and over two hundred and hfty prisoners taken, with no loss to 

 the Americans, as there was practicall}' no resistance. In White's 

 official report of the atiair he states that he had sent ahead a j)ai-t of 

 his force, together with the Cherokee under ^Morgan, to suiTound I lie 

 town, and adds that "Colonel Morgan and the (TieroktH's under iiis 

 fommand ga\'e 'undeniabl(>, evidence tiiat the}' merit t\w em])liiy of 

 their govermnent."' Not knowing that the attack had been uiad(> 

 without Jackson's sanction or knowdedge. the Creeks natuialh- con- 



'Coffee, report, etc., in Drake, Indiana, p. 396, 1880; Lossing, Field Book of the War of 1812, pp. 

 762,763 [n. d. (1869)]; Pickett, Alabama, p. .'iSS. reprint of 1896. 



-Ibid., p. .>5ti. 



3 Drake, Indians, p. 396, 1880; Pickett, op. i-it.. pp. S.'M, 5.5.i. 



< White's report, etc., in Fay and Davison, sketches of the War, pp. 240. 241: Rntland, Vl., lsl.'>; 

 Low, John, Impartial History of the War, p. 199; New York, 181.5; Drake, op. cil.. p. 397; I'icki-tl, up. 

 cit., p. 5,i7; Lossing. op. cit., p. 767. Low .says White had about 1,100 mouuied men, "101111111111,' 

 upward of 300 Cherokee Indians." Pickett gives White '100 Cherokee. 



