the chronicler. Thus. McKenney and Hall make Major Ridge the
hero of the war. especially of the Horseshoe fight, although he is not
mentioned in the official reports. Jackson speaks particularly of the
Cherokee in that battle as being "headed by their gallant chieftain,
Colonel Richard Brown, and conducted by the brave Colonel Mor-
gan." Coffee says that Colonel Gideon Morgan "commanded the
Cherokees," and it is Morgan who makes the official report of their
part in the battle. In a Washingtoi wspaper notice of the treaty
> Jackson a report and Colone] Morgan's report, in Fay and Davison, Sketches ol the War, pp. 255,
250,259, 1815. Pickett makes tin- lossoi the white troops 82 killed and 99 wounded, rhi Houston
reference Is (rom Lossing. The battle Is described also bj Pickett, Alabama, pp.588 691, reprint
ol 1896; Drake,Cherokee returned to their homes to rind them despoiled and
ravaged in their absence by disorderly white troops. Two years after-
ward, by treaty al Washington, the Government agreed to reimburse
them for the damage. Interested parties denied that they had suffered
any damage or rendered any services, to which their agent indignantly
replied: "It may he answered that thousands witnessed both; that in
nearly all the battles with the Creeks the Cherokees rendered the most
efficient service, and at the expense of the lives of many tine men.
whose wives and children and brothers and sisters are mourning their
fall." 2
In the spring of 1816 a delegation of seven principal men. accom-
panied by Agent Meigs, visited Washington, and the result was the
negotiation of two treaties at that place on the Name date. March 22,
1816. By the