provisions for the American troops.
As Jackson approached from the north, about the end of October,
L813, be wa- met by runners asking him to come to the aid of Path-
killer, a Cherokee chief, who was in danger of being cut off by the
hostilcs. at his village of Turkeytown, on the upper Coosa, near the
present Center. Alabama. A fresh detachment on its way from east
Tennessee, under General White, was ordered by Jackson to relieve
the town, and successfully performed this work. White's force con-
sisted of one thousand men. including four hundred Cherokee under
Colonel Gideon Morgan and .John Lowrey. 1
As the army advanced down the Coosa the Creeks retired to Tallasee-
hatchee, on the creek of the same name, near the present Jacksonville,
Calhoun county. Alabama. One thousand men under General Coffee,
together with acompany of Cherokee under Captain Richard Brown
and some few Creeks, were sent against them. The Indian auxiliaries
wore headdresses of white feathers and deertails. The attack was
made at daybreak of November •"». 1813, and the town was taken after
a desperate resistance, from which not one <ff the defenders escaped
alive, the Creeks having been completely surrounded on all sides.
Says Coffee in his official report:
They made all the resistance thai an overpowered soldier could '1<> — they fought as
long as "lie existed, but their destruction was very Boon completed. Our men rushed
up i" the doors of the house- ami in a few minutes killed the last warrior of then).
The enemy f ought with savage fury and met death with all its horrors, without
shrinking or complaining — not one asked to he