Alasandra's Book Club ~ Andrew Jackson's Campaign Against the British or The Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812 by Mrs. Dunbar Rowland
The book was published in 1926.
Chapters 1 -4
The beginning of the Creek War. The Indians rightly fearing that the Americans wanted to take away their land allied themselves with the British. The Choctaws refused to join the Creeks.
Andrew Jackson's Residence and Marriage in the Mississippi Territory. Andrew Jackson made friends with the Green family when he kept a store in Bruinsburg near Old Greenville and engaged in the purchase and sale of negroes to the Mississippi and Louisiana planters. He sought to belong to a better social class then he was born into. It was to Thomas Marston Green's home that Mrs. Rachel Donelson Robards came prior to her marriage to Andrew Jackson. The Green's helped her procure a divorce from the Spanish tribunal (All Spanish law was regarded as not binding by the Americans). Meanwhile Lewis Robards had instituted a suit for divorce and it was reportedly granted in the summer of 1791 by the Legislature of Virginia. The Jackson were married at the country home of Thomas Marston Green, where Rachel had been a guest for many months.
Springfield Plantation
The Creeks led by Tecumseh and supplied with arms from the British were determined to exterminate the Americans in the Mississippi Territory. The Muscogees claimed that their race came out of the bosom of the Nanih Waiya and reverently regarded the great mound beside which they first dwelt as their mother. The Creek were ready to fight for the land of their nativity.
Chapters 5 -14
Battle of Burnt Corn Creek - The Red Sticks were returning from Pensacola to the Holy Ground when they were mistaken for belligerents and attacked by Colonel James Caller.
Massacre at Fort Mims- In this gruesome picture of savage warfare, only one single kindly act has been cited by local historians. The valiant young chieftain, Jim Boy protected Mrs. McGirth and her family, who had found and nourished him when he was a starving child.
Massacre of the Kimbell Family
Attack on Fort Sinquefield
Captain Sam Dale and the "Canoe Fight" - Keep in mind the book was written in 1926. Captain Dale sprang into his small boat and called to his men to follow him; three instantly obeyed their leader. The bold attacking party, besides their redoubtable captain was made up of Jeremiah Austill, James Smith and the courageous slave Caesar, a half-breed Indian negro. She goes on to call him a faithful creature (which is really jarring as she is praising his bravery).
By all accounts Andrew Jackson treated the Creek Indians humanly when they surrendered. The Choctaws, Cherokee and Chickasaws were our allies.
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