at the
other shore in considerable numbers and brought them over, in which crafts a num-
ber of them embarked and landed on the bend with the enemy. Colonel Gideon
Morgan, who < unanded the Cherokees, Captain Kerr, and Captain William Rus-
sell, with a part of his company of spies, were a lg the first that crossed the river.
They advanced into the village and very soon drove the enemy from the huts up
the river bank to the fortified works from which they were fighting you. They
pursued and continued to annoy during your whole action. This movement of my
Indian forces left the river bank unguarded and made it necessary that I should send
a part of my line to take possession of the river bank. 9
According to the official report of Colonel Morgan,who commanded
the Cherokee and who was himself Severely wounded, the Cherokee
took the places assigned them along the bank in such regular order
■Jackson's report !<• Governor Blount, March 81, 1814, in Fay and Pavison, Sketches of the War,
pp. 253,234, 181 •
'General Coffee's report to General Jackson, April 1,1814, Ibid., i>. 267.
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that no part was left unoccupied, and the few fugitives who attempted
to escape from the fort by water "fell an easy prey to their ven-
geance." Finally, seeing that the cannonade had no mure effect upon
the breastwork than to bore holes in the logs, some of the Cherokee
plunged into the river, and swimming over to the town brought back
a number of canoes. A part crossed in these, under cover of the guns
of their