destruction of 553 men. women, and children. Being carelessly
guarded, it was surprised on the morning of August 30 by about 1,000 Creek war-
riors led by the mixed-blood chief, William Weatherford, who rushed in at the
open gate, and, after a stout but hopeless resistance by the garrison, massacred all
within, with the exception of the few nygroes and halfbreeds, whom they spared,
ami about a dozen whites who made their escape. The Indian loss is unknow n. hut
was very heavy, as the fight continued at close quarters until the buildings were
fired over the heads of the defenders. The unfortunate tragedy was due entirely to
tl arelessness of the commanding officer, who had been repeatedly warned that
the Indians were about, and at the very moment of the attack a negro was tied up
waitingto be flogged for reporting that he had the day before seen a number of
painted warriors lurking a short distance outside the stockade. Authorities: Pickett,
Alabama, ed. 189G; Hamilton and Owen, note, p. 170. in Transactions Alabama His-
torical Society, n, 1898; Agent Hawkins's report, 1813, American State Papers: Indian
Affairs, i, p. 853; Drake, Indians, ed. 1880. The figures given are those of Pickett,
which in this instance seem most correct, while Drake's are evidently exaggerated.
(35) General William McIntosh (p. 98): This noted halfbreed chief of the
Lower Creeks was the son of a Scotch officer in the British army by an Indian
mother, ami was born at the Creek town of Coweta in Alabama, on the lower Chat-
tahoochee, nearly opposite the present city of Columbus, Georgia, and killed at
the same place by