RED EAGLE AND THE WARS WITH THE CREEK INDIANS OF ALABAMA.

FAMOUS AMERICAN INDIANS.

BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.

NEW YORK:
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY,
751 Broadway.

COPYRIGHT BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY.
1878.

RED EAGLE'S LEAP.

PREFACE.

A work of this kind necessarily makes no pretension to originality inits materials; but while all that is here related is to be found inbooks, there is no one book devoted exclusively to the history of theCreek war or to the life of William Weatherford, the Red Eagle. Thematerials here used have been gathered from many sources—some of themfrom books which only incidentally mention the matters here treated,touching them as a part of larger subjects, and many of them from bookswhich have been long out of print, and are therefore inaccessible toreaders generally.

The author has made frequent acknowledgments, in his text, of hisobligations to the writers from whose works he has drawn informationupon various subjects. By way of further acknowledgment, and for theinformation of readers who may be tempted to enlarge their reading inthe interesting history of the South-west, he appends the following listof the principal books that have been consulted in the preparation ofthis volume:

Parton's "Life of Andrew Jackson."

Eaton's "Life of Andrew Jackson."

Pickett's "History of Alabama."

Drake's "Book of the Indians."

McAfee's "History of the Late War in the Western Country."

Claiborne's "Notes on the War in the South."

Meek's "Romantic Passages in South-western History."

"Indian Affairs, American State Papers."

Kendall's "Life of Jackson."

Waldo's "Life of Jackson."

Russell's "History of the Late War."

Brackenridge's "History of the Late War."

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. Showing, by way of Introduction, how Red Eagle happened to bea Man of Consequence in History
CHAPTER II. Red Eagle's People
CHAPTER III. Red Eagle's Birth and Boyhood
CHAPTER IV. The Beginning of Trouble
CHAPTER V. Red Eagle as an Advocate of War—The Civil War in the CreekNation
CHAPTER VI. The Battle of Burnt Corn
CHAPTER VII. Red Eagle's Attempt to abandon his Party
CHAPTER VIII. Claiborne and Red Eagle
CHAPTER IX. Red Eagle before Fort Mims
CHAPTER X. The Massacre at Fort Mims
CHAPTER XI. Romantic Incidents of the Fort Mims Affair
CHAPTER XII. The Dog Charge at Fort Sinquefield and Affairs on thePeninsula
CHAPTER XIII. Pushmatahaw and his Warriors
CHAPTER XIV. Jackson is helped into his Saddle
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