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-five
wounded. 3
A day or two later the people of Hillabee town, about the site of
the present village of that name in Clay county. Alabama, sent mes-
sengers to Jackson's camp to ask for peace, which that commander
immediately granted. In the meantime, even while the 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 Gideon Morgan and John Lowrey. surrounded
the town on November 18, 1813, taking it by surprise, the inhabitants
having trusted so confidently to the successkilling about two hundred warriors and burning four hun-
dred well-buill nouses. On December .'•': the Creeks were again
defeated by General Claiborne, assisted by some friendly Choctaws,
at Ecanachaca or the Holy Ground on Alabama river, near the present
Benton in Low ndes county. This town and another a few miles awav
were also destroyed, with a great quantity of provisions and other
property. 1 It is doubtful if any Cherokee were concerned in either
action.
Before the close of the year Jackson's force in northern Alabama
had been so far reduced by mutinies and expiration of service terms
that he had l>ut one hundred soldiers left and was obliged to employ
the Cherokee to garrison Fort Armstrong, on the upper Coosa, ami to
protect his provision depot.' With theopeningof the new year, L814,
having received reinforcements from Tennessee, together