hostile feeling was confined almost entirely to the Upper Creek
towns on the Tallapoosa, where the prophets of the new religion had
their residence. The half-breed chief, Weatherford (•".»'.). was the
leader of the war party. The Lower Creek towns on the Clu.ttahoo-
iSee Mooney, Ghost dance Religion, Fourteenth Aim. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 670-677, 1896;
McKennej and Hall, Indian Tribes, II, pp. 93-95, 1858; see also contemporary letters (1813, etc.) by
Hawkins. Cornells, and others in American state Papers: Indian Affairs, i, 1S32.
-Letters of Hawkins, Pinckney, and Cussetah King, July, 1813, American State Papers: Indian
Affairs, II, pp. 847-849, 1832.
:l Meigs, letter, May s. 1812, and Hawkins, letter. May 11, 1812, ibid., p.809.
4 Author's information from James I). Wafford.
'MeKenney and Hall, Indian Tribes, n, pi.. 96-97, IS 8
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chec, under Mcintosh, another half-breed chief , were friendly, and
acted with the Cherokee and the Americans against their own brethren.
It is not our purpose to give a history of the Creek war, but only
to note the part which the Cherokee had in it. The friendly Lower
Creeks, under Mcintosh, with a few refugees from the Upper towns,
operated chiefly with the army under Genera] Floyd which invaded
the southern pari of the Creels country from Georgia. Some friendly
Choctaw and Chickasaw also lenl their assistance in tin- direction.
The Cherokee, with some friendly Creeks of the Upper towns, acted
with tli*' armies under Generals White and .lack-on. which entered
the Creek country from the Tennessee side. While some hundreds
of their warriors were thus fighting in the field, the Cherokee at home
were busily collecting