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Mississippi, as a Province,
Baton Rouge, June 28th.* He had six hundred men to transport, and no assistance was furnished him but a draft for $200'00. His teams, medicines, and forage, were procured on his own responsibility with funds advanced by Messrs. John and Stephen Minor, of Natchez, and William Kenner, of New Orleans. His supplies were obtained from his friends Colonel Nelson, II. M. Harper, Thomas Waggoner, and other patriotic citizens of Amite county. It was a season of heavy rains and high wate.s, many swollen rivers and streams to cross, and it was the thirtieth of July when they reached Mount Vernon. While he was on the march, it having been ascertained that some four hundred of the war party, led by Peter McQueen, Josiah Francis, and High-Head Jim, had gone to Pensacola, for arms and ammunition, Col. James Caller, the senior militia officer on that frontier, determined to intercept them on their return. One hundred and eighty volunteers, including such men as Patrick May, G. W. Creagh, Zacharia Philips, W111. McGrew, Majors McFarlin, Wood, Jourdan, and Captains Smoot, Dale, Bailey, and Bradberry, repaired to his standard. Early on the morning of
*HRIGADE OF LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY VOI.UNTEF.IIS AND STAFF
AND COMMISSIONED OFFICERS OF T1IE III ilMENT OF MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY
VOLUNTEERS.
12* August, 1813.
Ferdinand L. Claiborne, brigadier General ; Alexander Calvit, First Lieutenant and Aid; Joseph 1*. Kennedy, Captain and Brigade Major; Joseph Carson, Colonel; George T. Iloss, Lieutenant Colonel; Daniel Beasley, Major; William R. Deloach, First Lieutenant and Adjutant; Benjamin F. Salvage, J''irst Lieutenant and Quartermaster; John Ker, Surgeon; Benjamin F. JIarney, Surgeon’s Mate ; William II. Cox, Surgeon’s Mate ; John Nelson, Captain; Joseph 1*. Kennedy, Captain; Louis I’ainbuuif, Captain; Philip A. Engle, Captain ; Archilaus Wells. Captair. of Dragoons; Randal Jones, Captain ; William Jack, Captiun ; Gerard C. Ilra idon, Captain ; William C. Moad, Captain ; Benjamin Dent, Captain ; Hatton Middleton, Captain; Abraham M. Scott, Captain ; James Foster, Captain ; L. V. Forlckil, Captain ; Charles G. Johnson, Captain; Hans M oi rison, Captain ; James Baily. First Lieutenant of Dragoons; Richardson Bowman, First Lieutenant: Audly L. Osborn, First Lieutenant; William Morgan, First Lieutenant; George 1’. Lilly, First Lieutenant; John 1). Rodgers, First Lieutenant Dragoons; William It. Deloach, First Lieutenant; Theron Kellogg, First Lieutenant; Andrew Montgomery, First Lieutenant; John Camp, First Lieutenant; Alexander Calvit,First Lieutenant; John Allen, First Lieutenant; Robert Lnyson, First Lieutenant; Benjamin F. Salvage, First Lieutenant; Charles Moore, Second Lieutenant; Charles Barran, Second Lieutenant; Spruce M. Osborne, Second Lieutenant; Nicholas Lock ridge, Second Lieutenant; Robert 0. Anderson, Second Lieutenant ; James M. Arthur, Ensign ; John Files, Knsign; George Dougharty, Ensign ; Win. R. Chambliss, Ensign;! Thomas C. Vaughn; Ensign Robert Swan, Ensign Stephen Mays, Ensign; James Luckett, Ensign ; George IT. Gibbs, Ensign; Elbert Burton, Ensign ; David M. Calliham, Ensign ; Young It. McDonald, Ensign ; Benjamin Blanten, Ensign ; Benjamin Stawell, Ensign; William S. Britt, Ensign; Isaac W. Davis, Ensign; Benjamin Bridges, Second Lieutenat Dragoons; John Cohn, Cornet; Kean Caldwell, Second Lieutenant Dragoons.
|Was at Fort Mims—received three wounds, but escaped and died ten years afterwards at Port Gibson, Mississippi.
OFFICERS OF MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT MILITIA UNDER COL. GEO. II. NIXON, MOUNT VERNON, DECEMllER, 1813.
Robert Twilley, John Lowry, Parmenas Briscoe, Samuel Batchelor, G. Y. Glnss-hurn, Captains. These troops were chiefly from Claiborne and Amite counties, and the officers were young men of high character. Colonel Nixon greatly distinguished himself during the war, and st'-od high in the confidence of General Jackson. He was subsequently appointed Brigadier General, and died at Pearl-ington, Hancock county.	-----	.....-—
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July 27th, his scouts reported that the Indians (with some three hundred loaded pack horses,) were encamped in a bend of Burnt Corn Creek, and were then engaged in cooking. Colonel Caller promptly formed his party and charged the camp. The-Indians stood their ground bravely for a few minutes, gradually falling back to the creek. Another concentrated charge, and they would doubtless have fled in confusion, and been slaughtered in great numbers while crossing the stream. But at that moment the word “retreat” was sounded in our lines—by whom given was never known—but it produced a panic, and most of the command fell back, in disorder, and retired precipitately, not forgetting, however, to drive off the Indian pack horses. Observing this, the Indians boldly renewed the attack, but they were met by a party of about eighty men, with Colonel Caller and other officers, and a desperate fight ensued, but the small party of whites finding themselves overpowered, were compelled to retreat. Many young officers signalized themselves in this action by great personal heroism.
Colonel Hawkins, Creek agent, even after this demonstration of the hostile intention of the Creeks, represented to General Flournoy, that they did not mean war, although they had seized and destroyed the property of the friendly half-breeds and murdered many of the leaders of the peace party; and he charged the white people of the frontier with having provoked hostilities. Such was the impression he made on Major-General Flournoy, it defeated every appeal of General Claiborne for reinforcements, and for permission to march into the heart of the nation. After the battle of Burnt Corn, and only six days before the fall of Fort Mims, the commanding general thus wrote to General Claiborne:
Headquarters Bay St. Louis, August 25,1813.
Sir—Your letters and documents, by express, have been received. As I have already written you, and likewise Governor Holmes, very fully on Indian atlairs^ I will not now go into farther details. A recent letter from'Colonel Hawkins (a copy herein enclosed,) will show the situation of the Creek Indians. They mlist finish their civil w<tr before they can go to tt'ar with us. And it is by 110 means certain that the war party will buccccu in overpowering the party friendly to us.”
Among the documents sent to General Flournoy, were several letters from the Spanish governor of Pensacola to Peter McQueen, showing their relations with the Indians, and the following letter from General Wilkinson, as he passed through the Creek Nation for Canada. But having embraced Colonel Hawkin’s opinions, they, unfortunately, made no impression on General Flournoy :
GENERAL WILKINSON TO JUDGE TOULMIN.
Sam. Manac’s, Creek Nation, June 20, 1813.
My Dear Sir—Your favor of the 22d, reached me near this place, surrounded by clangers; but I am too far advanced to retreat. Indeed, I Hare not turn my back on reports, and, therefore, shall proceed this evening, to Catoma, and to-morrow to Hoyle's, where I expect to see the Big "Warrior, who has begged an interview with me. He has been entrenched against the war party a week or ten days and lives in fear of his life, as his antagonists are daily making converts and increasing in strength, with the avowed intention to destroy him and all who have been concerned in the execution of the murderers ; after which, it is believed by all with whom I have conversed, they expect to intimidate the rest of the nation to join them, and then it is their intention to make 2 I