Tallapoosa County AlArchives Photo Place.....William Weatherford Inscribed In Stone March 25, 2006
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Bobby Meadows brmeadows@hotmail.com March 26, 2006, 11:04 am

Source:             Stone Inscribed With Indian Face - Dudleyville Rd - Outside Dadville,Alabama
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William Weatherford - "Red Eagle" (C. 1781-1824)

"I come to beg to send for the women and children of the (Red Sticks) who
are now starving in the woods. Their fields and cribs have been [burned] by
your people, who have driven them to the woods without an ear of corn,... The
Red Sticks are nearly all Killed... My warriors can no longer hear my voice:
their bones are at Talladega, Tallushatchee, Emuckfaw, and Tohopela."


So did Red Eagle, war chieftain of the Red Stick Creeks, bravely speak to
General Andrew Jackson in surrender. Red Eagle begged proudly, not for his
life but for the victims of bloody war, suffering hunger, the widows and 
orphans fo Red Sticks slain in battle with white armies. Jackson, or " Old
Hickory," was stirred by the courage of the chief, and moved by his care and 
sacrifice for his people. Jackson shouted to soldiers who wished to kill Red
Eagle, "Any man who would kill as brave a man as this would rob the dead!"

Hunter of vension, breeder fo horseflesh, Red Eagle tread here when Alabama
was yet wilderness.



Additional Comments:
Roadside rock inscribed with face.

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