Schley-Sumter County GaArchives News.....Justice, D.J. report of Indian attack August 4, 1836 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 April 11, 2009, 7:34 am Macon Telegraphh August 4, 1836 Pleasant Hill, near Pondtown, July 22, 1836. Dr. Mr. Bartlett, Dear Sir--I perceive in the Telegraph of the 14th inst. that you had received intelligence from some person from Sumter, that a party of Creek Indians had made their appearance near Americus, on their way, as supposed, to Florida. Your informant was rather too credulous. There was a party of Indians, to the number of about twenty, made their appearance on Kinchfoona, on Monday, the 4th inst. some 25 miles from Americus, on Monday night the whites, to the number of about eight or ten, way laid their trail, just at dark the the red sticks came on, the whites giving them a broadside and both parties retreated, the Indians back to the swamp, and the whites to raising men to pursue them. On Tuesday morning the whites assembled to about the number of fifty, they then proceeded to the place where the whites fired on them the evening before; they there took their trail and followed it to the house of Mr. Jarvis, which they found broken open & robbed of its contents; the whites pursued them on and followed into the swamp in mud and water, frequently up to their arm pits. The Indians just at night quit the swampand took the high woods, the whites being so much fatigued gave over the chase until morning. Eight whites only, pursued on their trail, and at about dusk came up with them, from whence an action took place, the whites were forced to retreat with one man severely wounded. Next morning the whites assembled to the number of seventy, and after proceeding to the battle ground they were informed of Mr. Prith's house being robbed over night, they went immediately on there, and proceeded a short distance when they could smell coffee roasting in a considerable swamp just before them; the horses were stopped at the distance of a quarter, the troops divided into three divisions: the centre division following the trail, the left division getting through the swamp first, met the enemy and done all the fighting. The Indians stood but one fire; they left one Indian dead, he received eight buck shot in the back: there were several Indians wounded, as they were trailed with success for several days on their blood. The whites had one man wounded (Sidney Smith, of Sumter) through both thighs. My old friend Robert Hatcher scalped the infernal blood hound that was killed. Respectfully, your friend, Dempsey J. Justice File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/newspapers/justiced2791nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb