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son had conferred with Governor Willie Blount about sending a brigade of mounted Tennessee militiamen under Brigadier General John Coffee to join him in Mobile. Now he sent urgent word for the militiamen to come without delay!
The fraternal feeling existing between John Coffee and Andrew Jackson ran deep. Each man, completely devoted to the other, was willing to undergo the most rigid personal sacrifice should the other command it. Coffee, ?tall, broad-shouldered, gentle in manner, but brave and intelligent,? had executed the key move that bottled up the Creeks at' Horseshoe Bend.5 With his usual alacrity, he once again answered his country?s call to duty and ordered his troops to rendezvous in Fayetteville on October 3. Patriotic feeling swept across Tennessee as Coffee?s veterans, with the fire of battle still flashing in their eyes, emerged from the hills, valleys, and hamlets to make the long trek southward for the second time within a year. Most of them were simple countrymen, armed only with their, long rifles and knives and attired in the clothing of the frontier. Their pantaloon pockets were filled with bullets. In this manner they responded to the appeal to ?come forward ... as there (could not) be a moment?s delay.?6
Jackson?s recall of the Tennessee militia, already schooled in the kind of wilderness warfare which appeared forthcoming, was a wise decision. Against the Creeks these men had subsisted for months in the Alabama back country with only scanty supplies. Their mobility, loyalty, and capacity to move upon their objective with a minimum loss of time made Jackson confident that here was a fighting force well prepared to meet any test.
At Fayetteville, Coffee mustered 2,000 men into service, and organized two divisions under Colonels
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General John Coffee, hero of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend against the Creeks, was Jackson?s close friend and military "right arm? and he led his Tennesseans gallantly at New Orleans. Portrait in Hermitage, Nashville.